Australians love a fiery contest, whether on the sporting field or in the corridors of Canberra. Which is why this week’s spat between Tanya Plibersek and Craig Kelly, which played… Read more »
Ethan Porter was about to write the most difficult sentence of his PhD program. He opened his laptop. Looking at the keyboard he reflected on the “nightmare stories” he’d heard… Read more »
The article below was originally published by The Conversation and is based on my research in the journal Environmental Communication. Will J Grant, Australian National University In an ideal world,… Read more »
*** Update – Ecker et al (2019) has published compelling new information showing that a Q&A format is actually quite effective in getting people to update their false beliefs. In… Read more »
Talking about climate change is tough. People’s attitudes about climate change can be very entrenched, and often based on cultural factors, and I’m fascinated about whether the efforts from both… Read more »
Do not rush out and buy this book. At least not just yet. This resource is part report and part book and was released in hardcover form just two weeks… Read more »
The only way to fight climate change is by countering misinformation. I say that because while the fact that our climate is changing and that humans are the primary cause for this change is… Read more »
It is the biggest problem the world faces right now – how to respond to climate change. Overwhelming evidence shows that our climate is changing and that humans are causing… Read more »
Celebrity physicist and science communicator Brian Cox recently found himself on a political talk show panel debating climate science with Malcolm Roberts, a Senator-elect from the right-wing One Nation party. And… Read more »
Even when subjects are given numerical information about the proportion of experts on either side of an issue, false balance has a distorting effect on message recipients. Kohler (2016) conducted two experiments… Read more »