Time for a more Radical Plan?
In 2014, England will follow the example set by Wales and Scotland and introduce a carrier bag charge. If the Welsh and Scottish experiences are anything to go by, the policy will drastically reduce...
View ArticleTime to stop obsessing about scientific uncertainty?
For fans of probability, confidence intervals and margins of error, climate change is a dream come true. For everyone else, the fact that uncertainty (inherent in any complex area of science) has...
View ArticleWill UK floods bring an end to climate silence?
The wettest January in the UK in 250 years followed by a stormy February have brought misery to many thousands. Floods have submerged large chunks of the south-west of the country, a key stretch of...
View ArticleUnsustainable practices: why electric cars are a failure of ambition
In this guest post by Nicola Spurling and Dan Welch, of the Sustainable Practices Research Group, they argue that a focus on ‘techno-fix’ solutions to climate change like electric cars simply...
View ArticleA symphony of reason and emotion
This guest post is by Sander van der Linden, a doctoral candidate in social-environmental psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a visiting research scholar at...
View ArticleAre kids being ‘brainwashed’ on climate change? A teacher responds
This guest post is by Luke Sinnick, a teacher of A-level Biology at Greenhead College, Huddersfield. The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s recent report written by Andrew Montford and John Shade is...
View ArticleNEW REPORT Science & stories: Bringing the IPCC to life
COIN today releases a report on how the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can communicate better with the public. We based our study on interviews with 16 key experts from the media...
View ArticleYou say “Global Warming”. I say “Climate Change”- Let’s call the whole thing...
This article originally appeared on the Climate Denial and was excerpted, in part, from George Marshall’s new book, Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, which...
View ArticleUnsustainable practices: why electric cars are a failure of ambition
In this guest post by Nicola Spurling and Dan Welch, of the Sustainable Practices Research Group, they argue that a focus on ‘techno-fix’ solutions to climate change like electric cars simply...
View ArticleA symphony of reason and emotion
This guest post is by Sander van der Linden, a doctoral candidate in social-environmental psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a visiting research scholar at...
View Article‘Must try harder’ on climate change communication
In a week that has seen an unusually high level of climate change coverage among mainstream media (with the launch of the second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s three-part...
View ArticleCOIN’s research informs new climate campaign
How does a national climate change campaign reach beyond the concerned minority to a broader, more diverse sector of the British public? COIN employed its unique methodology of narrative workshops to...
View ArticleDon’t give up on engaging conservatives
This guest post is by Paul Connor, a postgraduate researcher in social psychology at the University of Melbourne. His research is currently focused on climate change communication and pro-environmental...
View ArticleAre kids being ‘brainwashed’ on climate change? A teacher responds
This guest post is by Luke Sinnick, a teacher of A-level Biology at Greenhead College, Huddersfield. The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s recent report written by Andrew Montford and John Shade is...
View ArticleTo segment or not to segment?
This is a guest post by Donald W. Hine and Aaron Driver, University of New England, Armidale, Australia The challenge of communicating climate change is fraught with challenges, often from unexpected...
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A one way ticket to carbon heaven?
In this blog by Roger Tyers, a PhD student at Southampton University, he asks whether carbon offsets for flights offer a ‘one way ticket to carbon heaven’. The post was originally published by...
View ArticleThe language that leaves people behind
This is a guest post by Jeremy Porter, a communications strategist and writer based in New York. He writes regularly at his communications blog where this article first appeared. Jeremy is on Twitter....
View ArticleNEW REPORT Science & stories: Bringing the IPCC to life
COIN today releases a report on how the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can communicate better with the public. We based our study on interviews with 16 key experts from the media...
View ArticleA symphony of reason and emotion
This guest post is by Sander van der Linden, a doctoral candidate in social-environmental psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a visiting research scholar at...
View Article‘Must try harder’ on climate change communication
In a week that has seen an unusually high level of climate change coverage among mainstream media (with the launch of the second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s three-part...
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