icons: Responses to climate change icons
Description
A matrix of nine rows and six columns, one column for each of six
icons relevant to climate change. The matrix entries show the number
of respondents who indicated which icon they found most concerning.
The nine rows show different classes of respondents who were exposed
to different subsets (of size four) of the six icons
Source
Data kindly supplied by Saffron O'Neill of the University of East AngliaDetails
The six icons were used in this study were:
- PB
- polar bears, which face extinction through loss of ice
floe hunting grounds
- NB
- The Norfolk Broads, which flood due to intense rainfall
events
- LF
- London flooding, as a result of sea level rise
- THC
- The Thermo-haline circulation, which may slow or stop as
a result of anthropogenic modification of the hydrological cycle
- OA
- Oceanic acidification as a result of anthropogenic emissions
of carbon dioxide
- WAIS
- The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is calving into the sea
as a result of climate change
References
-
S. O'Neill 2007. An Iconic Approach to Communicating
Climate Change, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental
Science (in prep)
- I. Lorenzoni and N. Pidgeon 2005. Defining Dangers of
Climate Change and Individual Behaviour: Closing the Gap.
In Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (conference
proceedings), UK Met Office, Exeter, 1-3 February