Public representations of scientific uncertainty about global climate change

By Stephen Zehr. 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Uncertainty, scepticism and attitudes towards climate change: biased assimilation and attitude polarisation (2012, background): “This can lead to competing points of view on a scientific issue being presented as equally supported, when in fact they are not (Zehr, 2000; see also McCright & Shwom, 2010).”
How Tourists and Tourism Experts Perceive Climate Change and Carbon-offsetting Schemes (2004, background): “Bunting, 2001; Lynes & Becken, 2002) to inform the public, but also with the result of spreading a fair amount of scientific uncertainty (Zehr, 2000).”
Testing Public (Un)Certainty of Science (2004, background): “After analyzing popular press articles about global warming from 1986 to 1995, Zehr (2000) concluded several things about the portrayal of scientific uncertainty.”
The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics (2019, background): “A frame of deficient uncertainty emphasizes a lack of knowledge—sometimes due to a lack of research, or because that thing is fundamentally unknowable, or because the problem space has expanded (Hacking, 1975; Kuhn, 2000; Stocking & Holstein, 1993; Zehr, 2000).”
The Mutual Reinforcement of Media Selectivity and Effects: Testing the Reinforcing Spirals Framework in the Context of Global Warming (2014, neutral): “…media coverage highlighted the “disagreement” among those who believed global warming was happening and those who questioned the scientific evidence (Zehr, 2000), more recently, news from these sources has been less likely to cover the argument made by climate contrarians (Boykoff, 2007; Feldman…”
Framing Climate Change: Economics, Ideology, and Uncertainty in American News Media Content From 1988 to 2014 (2019, background): “More recently, however, balance nearly disappeared from the press (Zehr, 2000; Boykoff and Boykoff, 2004, 2007; Boykoff, 2007).”
Cultural Circuits of Climate Change in U.K. Broadsheet Newspapers, 1985–2003 (2005, background): “While acknowledging contributions by McComas and Shanahan (1999) and Zehr (2000), 1457 0272-4332/05/0100-1457$22.00/1 C© 2005 Society for Risk Analysis we believe the role of media discourse in the reproduction and transformation of scientific and political claims in relation to dangerous climate…”
Are flood victims more concerned about climate change than other people? The role of direct experience in risk perception and behavioural response (2008, background): “Uncertainty about climate change can be exaggerated by the media, which tends to emphasise the scientific and political controversy surrounding the issue (Boykoff and Boykoff 2004; Corbett and Durfee 2004; Zehr 2000), which in turn is used to justify denial and inaction on the part of governments an”