No, really. So says the ever wacky, cultish leaning, George Soros financed Think Progress (btw, Joe Romm’s Climate Progress has totally been subsumed, and is now just a little tab at the website, rather than a huge part)
Most Americans Won’t Act On Climate. The News Probably Isn’t Helping.
A new study suggests some journalists are missing a key piece of the story.While a growing number of Americans acknowledge the climate is changing, the issue generally ranks low among voters’ concerns. A scant few have bothered to contact a government official to press for action on global warming.
This is a point of frustration for organizers and academics alike, who contend that lawmakers will only pass strong policies when Americans demand it, and Americans will only demand it if they believe they can affect the political process. At the root of all this grumbling is the question of empowerment. How do you empower citizens to pick up their phones and call their elected officials?
A new study published in the journal PLOS One investigates the effect of news coverage on feelings of empowerment — what social scientists call efficacy.Their findings suggest reporters are missing a key piece of the story.
Most of it is typical gobbledegook we see from Warmists who keep wondering “why the hell does no one care about this?”
Generally speaking, news about climate change does little to promote efficacy. Feldman and Hart’s prior work looked at print and TV news stories on global warming. In the periods studied, doom and gloom dominated coverage—climate change would flood cities, dry rivers and extinguish supplies of coffee beans and avocados. Little of the reporting focused on what people could do to shape climate policy.
Notice, this is all about passing polices that affect Other People. When I see something like “act”, I think of something I can do in my own life. Members of the Cult Of Climastrology think “what can I do to make other people act on my beliefs.”
