Climate Language
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Shilling for Big Oil: Study analyzes PR’s hidden role in climate crisis
Ever wonder why people keep talking about "clean coal"?
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Calling climate change a ‘crisis’ doesn’t do what you think
Getting people to act takes more than strong words, a new study says.
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Climate change deniers are over attacking the science. Now they attack the solutions.
A new study charts the evolution of right-wing arguments.
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Natural gas company goes to great lengths to avoid saying the word ‘pipeline’
Why call it a pipeline when you could call it "an infrastructure"?
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‘Climate crisis’ has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary
The eco-lexicon got a major update just in time for the Glasgow summit.
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It’s not just you: Everyone is Googling ‘climate anxiety’
Searches for the phrase have soared 565 percent over the past year.
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To solve the climate crisis, we must first repair our relationships
Environmental justice scholar Kyle Whyte on reframing the climate conversation through the lens of "kinship time."
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Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon
Carbon neutral? Mitigation? People don't know the words scientists think they do.
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Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change
"Both sides" of what "debate"?
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Conservatives may be willing to take on climate change — if you call it something else
Fires are raging in their backyards. But many still scoff at global warming.