Global warming" or "climate change
Whether the planet is warming depends on question wording
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6370949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathon P Schuldt (0000-0002-0885-0160, corresponding author), Sara Konrath (0000-0001-9182-0095), H Konrath, S H Konrath, Norbert Schwarz (0000-0002-8868-7067) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-124 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Opinion Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-362X • E-ISSN: 1537-5331 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/poq/nfq073 |
| OpenAlex | W2096589647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 147 |
| References cited | 14 |
In public discourse and survey research, global climate change is sometimes referred to as “global warming” and sometimes as “climate change.” An analysis of web sites of conservative and liberal think tanks suggests that conservatives prefer to use the term “global warming” whereas liberals prefer “climate change.” A question wording experiment (N = 2267) illustrates the power of these frames: Republicans were less likely to endorse that the phenomenon is real when it was referred to as “global warming” (44.0%) rather than “climate change” (60.2%), whereas Democrats were unaffected by question wording (86.9% vs. 86.4%). As a result, the partisan divide on the issue dropped from 42.9 percentage points under a “global warming” frame to 26.2 percentage points under a “climate change” frame. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed
Climate change · Climatology · Economics · Frame (networking · Global warming · Political economy · Political science · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Risk Perception and Management · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Ecology · Geology
Discourse competition and fragmented echoes
Degrowth
Culturing Belief
Concluding Thoughts
What Should We Believe About Belief?
How Our Minds Are Made Up
Nudging Well
Dare to Think?
Epistemic Pollution
Globalization, Climate Change and the Media
Science in Movements
Climate Change Sentiment on Twitter
A critical review of discursive approaches in energy transitions
Public opinion on energy development
Attitudes and Attitude Change
The cultural meanings of science and religion
The Effect of Climate Change on Natural Disasters
If They Like You, They Learn from You
The Proof is in the Picture
Does “climate change” equal “global warming”? A corpus-based study of lexical choices related to climate change in three UK newspapers from 2018 to 2025
Topic modelling of public Twitter discourses, part bot, part active human user, on climate change and global warming
Climate change awareness of gen z
Beyond behavioral change
Roles of parasocial relationship with eco-celebrities, motivation attribution, and message framing in virality of climate information on social media
Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression
Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media
Solutions Journalism Stories Boosts Pro-Environmental Behavioral Intentions Through Positive Affect and Collective Efficacy Beliefs
Effects of Question Methods in Assessing Fear of Hate Crimes
How China Divides the Left
The Six Australias
Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior and Media Dependency Theory
Bringing the Heat Home
Climate Change and YouTube
Mapping the Field of Climate Change Communication 1993–2018
A Simple Intervention to Reduce Framing Effects in Perceptions of Global Climate Change
“Degrowth” vs. Other Types of Growth
“Climate Change” or “Global Warming”? The (Un)Politicization of Climate in Chinese Social Media Platform
Evaluating the Terms Americans Use to Refer to “Carbon Emissions”
Media Frames and Cognitive Accessibility
Measuring Americans’ Support for Adapting to ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Extreme Weather’
Climate Change and Energy Technologies in Undergraduate Introductory Science Textbooks
Assessing climate change beliefs
Naming is framing
The pesantren scholars’ Fatwa on global warming and climate change
Communicating Climate Change
Using Frames to Make Scientific Communication More Effective
A dual-motive model of scapegoating
A Formal Theory of Public Opinion
The evidence for motivated reasoning in climate change preference formation
Solution aversion
Boomerang Effects in Science Communication
Climate change and health – what’s the problem
On the Strength of Trust
Climatechange vs. #Globalwarming
Climate Change
A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate
Change in US state-level public opinion about climate change
The impacts of political cues and practical information on climate change decisions
Public interest in climate change over the past decade and the effects of the ‘climategate’ media event
Their Economy and Our Health
Climate change perceptions in Bavaria
A functional-cognitive framework for attitude research
More than entertainment
It’s only natural
Cultural dimensions and the politicization of climate communication
Climate change risks and global warming dangers
What's the ‘fracking’ problem? One word can’t say it all
Moral hazard or not? The effects of learning about carbon dioxide removal on perceptions of climate mitigation in the United States
Partisan strength and the politicization of global climate change
The impact of elite frames and motivated reasoning on beliefs in a global warming conspiracy
Hearts or minds? Identifying persuasive messages on climate change
Status Quo Bias in Ballot Wording
The Role of Neologisms in the Climate Change Debate
Targeting and tailoring climate change communications
The social media life of climate change
What shapes perceptions of climate change? New research since 2010
Climate concepts for supporting political goals of mitigation and adaptation
United States agricultural stakeholder views and decisions on climate change
The Potential of Interactivity and Gamification Within Immersive Journalism & Interactive Documentary (I-Docs) to Explore Climate Change Literacy and Inoculate Against Misinformation
War of the Words
Elegant Science Narratives and Unintended Influences
Do partisanship and politicization undermine the impact of a scientific consensus message about climate change
Intersecting frames in communicating environmental risk and uncertainty
When probabilities change
Psychological distance, risk perception, and affect
Genetic engineering, genetic modification, or agricultural biotechnology
Assessing public opinion about controversial risks
Propensity to consent to data linkage
Development and validation of the Acsi
Reliving history
But Is That Mediator Really the Cause? An Experiment Manipulating Persuasion Knowledge as a Mediator for How Adaptive Frames Create Positive Responses to Climate Change News
Debating clean energy
How does framing affect policy support for emissions mitigation? Testing the effects of ocean acidification and other carbon emissions frames
Preaching to different choirs
Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change
Here and now, there and then
Polarized frames on “climate change” and “global warming” across countries and states
Local temperature anomalies increase climate policy interest and support
Scepticism in a changing climate
Changing the world with words? Euphemisms in climate change issues
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes and anchoring on belief in global warming
Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion
Gauging Public Opinion
What's in a name? Commonalities and differences in public understanding of “climate change” and “global warming”
A Review
The Implications of Framing Effects for Citizen Competence
Testing Public (Un)Certainty of Science
Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem
| Unique citing works | 147 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 145 |