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OKIsItJustMe

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Mon Jun 5, 2017, 09:58 AM Jun 2017

Public confused by climate change messages

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_586523_en.html
[font face=Serif][font size=5]Public confused by climate change messages[/font]

[font size=4]Experts, charities, the media and government confuse the public by speaking “different languages” on climate change, a new study says.[/font]

[font size=3]The research team focussed on Colombia and likened climate change communication to a “broken phone”.

They said information from the government was often presented to the public in a “very technical way” and rarely included any type of call to action.

Meanwhile, academics rarely discussed the issues with people outside academia, and messages from non-profit organisations were “lost in the middle of the information agenda of traditional media”.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.598
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