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Americans’ Views on Climate Change, NASA, and NASA’s Climate Website
This report summarizes the results of a nationally representative survey of American adults conducted in 2018. The...
A 2017 national survey of broadcast meteorologists
Broadcast meteorologists are increasingly playing an important role across America as trusted, local climate change...
TV Meteorologists as Local Climate Change Educators
Five years ago – in partnership with Climate Central and WLTX (Columbia, SC) – we tested the premise that if TV...
Photojournalism as a Vehicle for Public Engagement with Climate Change
The power of photographs to engage the public with multifaceted, complex issues of global scope such as war, hunger,...
Climate Matters: A Comprehensive Educational Resource Program for Broadcast Meteorologists
Global climate change is influencing the weather in every region of the United States, often in harmful ways, and...
National Park Service Staff Communication Guide: Knowing & Interacting with Your Audience
Climate change has been identified by Jonathan Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service, as a high priority for...
Evaluation of a National High School Entertainment-Education Program
Ever-increasing global warming has created a societal imperative to reach and engage youth, whose futures are at risk....
Weathercaster Views on Informal Climate Education: Similarities and Differences According to Climate Change Attitudes
Surveys have found that weathercaster views on climate change are diverse, with a large majority agreeing that climate...
Climate Change Education through TV Weathercasts: Results of a Field Experiment
A field study shows that on-air and online education provided by a TV meteorologist over the course of one year...
If They Like You They Learn From You: How a Brief Weathercaster-Delivered Climate Education Segment is Moderated by Viewer Evaluations of the Weathercaster
Local television (TV) weathercasters are a potentially promising source of climate education, in that weather is the...
A National Survey of Television Meteorologists About Climate Change Education, June 2011
With funding from the National Science Foundation, we assessed TV weathercasters' views about their potential role as...
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