Climate Language
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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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![Faith Kearns pictured with her new book, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" in which she discuses how to talk about climate change and other divisive science issues.]()
![Faith Kearns pictured with her new book, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" in which she discuses how to talk about climate change and other divisive science issues.]()
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.
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![A photo of Andri Snær Magnason and the cover of his book, "On Time and Water"]()
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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic
A newly translated book connects language with our failure to act.
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Facts are back, and so is the EPA’s climate change website
Trump erased it. Biden revived it.
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Only 2020 could bring us words like these
What happens to the lexicon when the climate crisis meets a global pandemic?
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Birth strike, flygskam, Pyrocene: The words that defined our planet in 2019
2019 was a wild year for the climate — and the English lexicon.
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These 13 words defined our overheating planet in 2018
The world was on fire this year, and so was our vocabulary.
