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Global climate marches sharply raise attention to climate change: Analysis of climate search behavior in 46 countries
Journal of Environmental Psychology ( IF 7.649 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101596
Matthew R. Sisco , Silvia Pianta , Elke U. Weber , Valentina Bosetti

We examine attention to climate change in 46 countries across six continents from 2015 through 2019 by analyzing internet search activity in ten languages. We find that information seeking about climate change, measured by internet searches, notably increased in 2019 relative to prior years. Next, we analyze the impact of global climate marches on internet search activity and find that climate activist events are powerful drivers of attention compared to political events (United Nations Climate Change Conferences) and temperature abnormalities. To explore the role of media coverage, we estimate the effects of climate marches while controlling for weekly news coverage of climate change and find evidence supporting the notion of media attention mediating the effects of climate protests. Lastly, we quantify the duration of the increases in information seeking produced by these events. We find the durations are short-lived, with attention only staying above pre-event levels for several days. As the literature to date has paid scarce attention to public demonstrations as sources of influence on the public's attention to climate change, we suggest these results implore the field to focus more research on the impacts of climate activist events.



中文翻译:

全球气候大游行极大地引起人们对气候变化的关注:46个国家的气候搜索行为分析

我们通过分析十种语言的互联网搜索活动,考察了六大洲46个国家从2015年到2019年对气候变化的关注。我们发现,通过互联网搜索测得的有关气候变化的信息在2019年相对于往年明显增加。接下来,我们分析了全球气候行军对互联网搜索活动的影响,发现与政治事件(联合国气候变化大会)和温度异常相比,气候活动家事件是引起人们关注的强大动力。为了探索媒体报道的作用,我们在控制每周气候变化新闻报道的同时,估算了气候行进的影响,并找到了支持媒体关注这一观点来调解气候抗议影响的证据。最后,我们量化了这些事件所产生的信息寻求增加的持续时间。我们发现持续时间是短暂的,注意力只能停留在赛前水平以上几天。由于迄今为止的文献很少关注公众示威,因为公众示威是影响公众关注气候变化的根源,因此我们建议这些结果使该领域成为热点,以便将更多的研究重点放在气候活动家事件的影响上。

更新日期:2021-04-28
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