We are the midst of a climate emergency requiring urgent action that is as yet unforthcoming both on scale and at speed needed. This article considers this current state inaction how we might understand processes attitudinal behavioural change needed through emotional framework loss. These issues further explored additional lens year 2020, tumultuous social created by COVID�19 pandemic. The dra...

The lack of broad public support for climate change mitigation policy hampers efforts to adopt timely approaches to the climate crisis. Echoing prior calls for examining the role of emotions in climate change communication, this study explores effects of compassion on support for government actions to address climate change. A diverse sample of U.S. participants (N 1⁄4 400) was randomly assigne...

A review of the present status of the global warming science is presented in this paper. The term global warming is now popularly used to refer to the recent reported increase in the mean surface temperature of the earth; this increase being attributed to increasing human activity and in particular to the increased concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) in...