From Critique to Audit: A Pragmatic Approach to the Climate Emergency

Rethinking the work of academics in a time of pressing deadlines for climate action, this paper offers a series of new pragmatic strategies that academics can take up. It suggests a climate pledge where university teachers promise 5% or more of their teaching time to link the field of their traditional research to climate issues. It suggests that humanists, social scientists and data scientists need not only to critique the logic of extraction that propels our climate catastrophe, but also to audit individual institutions, writers, and politicians for their continuing engagement with climate or lack thereof

Climate Change Perceptions in the Digital World

The consequences of climate change are increasingly evident around the world, however, efforts have been gathered to reverse this problem. Digital media has become essential in the daily lives of each individual and any information that circulates on the Internet today, whether on social networks or digital pages, reaches a very high level of propagation. Understanding the extent to which social networks and online information are essential for raising people\u27s awareness of climate change is the main issue we focus on. In order to verify it, we conducted a study by questionnaire, developed by the literature review carried out on the subject. Among the proposed objectives, we also intend to check how digital media are used to support the reversal of climate change. We present here some of the results obtained in this study (N = 181), being expected as a result the rarely use of digital media to raise people\u27s awareness of climate change, however, it is also expected that these media may have a fundamental role in reversing this problem

Climate Change Perception in Scientific and Public Sphere

International audienceClimate change is one of the major concerns of humankind during this 21st century. Indeed everywhere on the planet, effects climate change is now widely perceptible to everyone. However, while a lot of efforts have been made on the proposal of efficient models able to provide reliable climate projections for the future years, very little work has been done on the global population's feelings regarding the climate changes. Thus in this paper we focus to this social dimension of the problem and we adopt a data analytics approach that aims to study people's perception of climate change. First, we analyze the scientific papers published during the last forty years and we try to understand what are the topics addressed and their evolution. Then, we have collected data on Twitter to understand what are the feelings and the topics addressed by the individuals regarding climate change. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first data analysis approach that highlights the feelings and topics of the global population about climate change and compares them with scientific articles