Zoe Leviston

Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences About 40% of Australians don’t believe humans are a major cause of climate change. Reaching these sceptic holdout groups may require unconventional approaches.

Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences (and avoid critical media coverage from the usual suspects!)... new from Jamin Wang, Kelly Fielding, Bec Colvin, Robin Gulliver, and @winnifredlouis.bsky.social

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social

What a resource!

Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥 Hot Take: What’s holding back behavioral research on climate change mitigation? 🌍

Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇

#ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability

Image: photocomposite of imagery on unsplash.com by Vlad Kutepov (Koala), Neil Mark Thomas (bushfire), and Anousha A (mask).

Would you pay to protect koala habitats or blue-green spaces like your local lake? Led by @zlevo.bsky.social, we examined whether thinking about high-impact #health or #climate events would make someone more willing to financially support these areas. Read here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Such an interesting talk, thanks for sharing.

Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

Discover the #TISP Dataset now out in #ScientificData! The open access dataset includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries on their perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes. 🌍🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide A global new survey shows there’s no crisis of trust in scientists, as some might claim. But there are some nuances.

📣 *New science alert*

🌏Global trust in scientists project led by @colognaviktoria.bsky.social and @nielsmede.bsky.social is out today in Nature Human Behaviour: go.nature.com/40pox5P

🦘Some interesting Australia-specific results in our Conversation piece below, led by @mdmarques.com

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳

With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

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This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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I feel seen.

It begs the question, what did she think PHON stands for?

📢New research alert

We know many are angry about climate change. But precisely WHAT they’re angry about matters, for action and wellbeing.

Original open-access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@mentaloose.bsky.social #climatesky

Decolonizing Environmentalism We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

I don’t think (unfortunately) it will play much part, whether people see it for its mirage or as a viable alternative. Even the people with big systems already on their roofs.

Great to see the arrival of Climate Outreach 👇👇👇

Climate Outreach Climate Outreach works with people and organisations to help create new climate stories. Every year, we work with hundreds of partners - from charities to governments to business - to help them naviga...

Hello! We're Climate Outreach - helping everyone from charities to governments to business navigate difficult climate conversations and unlock more ambitious climate action!

Interested? Then give us a follow ☺️

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To gain the most impact, you should submit the article to the journal with the highest ‘Impact Factor’
❌ To gain the most impact, you should submit to the (reputable) journal whose readership is most likely to be stimulated by your findings

‘Person’ doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Despite the headline….

“Only Australia arrested climate and environmental protesters at a higher rate than UK police.”

New academic models for planetary health Universities around the world are marketing themselves both as the place where complex problems are solved, and as places that tackle gender and other forms of discrimination seriously, where flexible...

Transformational Science is a team sport.
I feel so lucky and grateful to work with people in #climatehealth who inspire and challenge me to do better, to be better, every day.
Written with the brilliant Zoe Leviston and Arnagretta Hunter

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Systematic assessment of the achieved emission reductions of carbon crediting projects - Nature Communications Carbon markets are key in climate strategies, but only 16% of carbon credits represent real emission reductions, based on a study of 2,346 projects. Reforms are needed to improve the effectiveness of ...

Major investigation of offsets projects ('carbon markets') shows only 16% of carbon credits issued constitute real emission reductions

Yet countries agreed major new C markets at #COP29 with no obvious tightening of standards

Vast majority of offsetting is a scam

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We suggest the misperceptions of the highly concerned are due in part to attending to the politics of the issue, which is highly polarised. But the electorate is not. We advocate emphasising the unity that exists for strong climate action. End/

Climate concern was strongly related to perceived political polarisation, and this held withing voting groups. If you were a concerned Greens voter, you perceived strong group differences; if you were a less concerned Greens voter, perceptions of group differences were muted. 9/

So what’s going on here? Are the people at the ends of the political spectrum just out of touch with reality? A tempting conclusion, but not, in our view, a compelling one. Another thing we asked our participants was how much climate change concerns them as an issue. 8/

Bar chart comparing actual climate policy support with perceived support, broken down by voting group. Shows Greens and Labor voters overestimate polarisation of support, while One Nation voters underestimate polarization

That happened for Greens voters, who assumed there would be stark differences based on partisanship. For Labor and LNP, this assumption was slightly muted. For One Nation Voters? They really do think we’re one nation! 7/

Here’s where it got interesting. We asked our participants how much policy support they thought each set of voters would show for these policies. We expected to find evidence for ‘false polarisation’ – that people would overestimate political differences… 6/

bar chart showing policy support by voting behaviour. Green bar is Greens voters, red bar is Labor voters, blue bar is Liberal/National Party voters, orange bar is Pauline Hanson’s One Nation voters.

Who people voted for mattered too. Greens (left-wing), Labor (centre-left), LNP (centre-right) and One Nation (right-wing) voters all differed in actual policy support, with support decreasing moving left to right on the political spectrum. 5/

How people perceived the policy support of other people mattered; perceptions of high support (even when controlling for personal support) was associated with feelings that enacting the policies would be fair and legitimate. Perceived low support the opposite. 4/