Communicating about climate change: What's politics got to do with it?

(Portland State University) In the United States, climate change is controversial, which makes communicating about the subject a tricky proposition. A recent study by Portland State researchers Brianne Suldovsky, assistant professor of communication, and Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, assistant professor of statistics, explored how liberals and conservatives in Oregon think about climate science to get a better sense for what communication strategies might be most effective at reaching people with different political ideologies.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news