Climate Language
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![The word mitigation spelled out with Scrabble tiles surrounded by question marks]()
![The word mitigation spelled out with Scrabble tiles surrounded by question marks]()
Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon
Carbon neutral? Mitigation? People don't know the words scientists think they do.
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![A woman at a protest holding a sign that says]()
Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change
"Both sides" of what "debate"?
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Conservatives may be willing to take on climate change — if you call it something else
Fires are raging in their backyards. But many still scoff at global warming.
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What’s an energyshed? The government wants to know.
The Department of Energy is crowdsourcing a definition.
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What counts as a heat wave? It’s a life-or-death question.
Blistering temperatures are redefining what's considered "really hot."
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![Collage: An elephant with a large red speech bubble with an Earth in quotes]()
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Republicans care more about the climate if you speak their language
A threat to "freedom"? How a new study changed minds in the real world.
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![Collage: A woman and man sitting on top of a speech bubble shape with a wildfire in the background]()
![Collage: A woman and man sitting on top of a speech bubble shape with a wildfire in the background]()
During wildfires and hurricanes, a language gap can be deadly
The importance of translating emergency warnings is often a lesson learned too late.
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ExxonMobil found the real reason for the climate crisis: You
How oil companies used language to make us blame ourselves.
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The conventional wisdom on how to talk about climate change? It’s wrong.
Faith Kearns’ new book offers insights from conversations IRL.
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‘Climate emergency’: Hawaii is the first state to call it like it is
The 50th state is making history.
