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Economics
Cuong Viet Nguyen
Summary: This study investigates the impact of extreme weather events on inter-province migration in Vietnam. High rainfall extremes lead to out-migration of highly educated individuals while attracting poorly educated individuals for in-migration. Low temperature extremes have varying effects on migration in different provinces.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Wen Shi, San-Mei Wen, Jing Zhang, Bowering Danna, Chen-Chen Hou, Jing Yang, Jing Su
Summary: This study examined the role of local extreme weather in promoting Chinese people's awareness of climate change. The results confirmed that residents from some cities become more concerned about climate change when extreme weather events occur locally, but only a few cities' online information environment provides more information about climate change or global warming in response to extreme weather. The study suggests that there is still room for improvement in increasing and satisfying the public's existing concerns about climate change, and proposes adopting climate change prevention and adaptation as a news report framework for extreme weather events.
ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Wangyang Lai, Shanjun Li, Yanyan Liu, Panle Jia Barwick
Summary: In the short run, temperature extremes have a direct negative impact on consumption, resulting in an inverted U-shaped relationship between temperature and consumption. However, adaptation moderates this relationship in the long run.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
McKenzie Prillaman
Summary: Researchers have identified nine sites that could mark a new geological era characterized by pollution and other human activities.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jing-Li Fan, Yabin Da, Bin Zeng, Hao Zhang, Zhu Liu, Na Jia, Jue Liu, Bin Wang, Lanlan Li, Dabo Guan, Xian Zhang
Summary: The study identified a significant negative relationship between temperature and COVID-19 cases, but rising temperatures induced by climate change are unlikely to contain the pandemic. There is an inverted U-shaped nonlinear relationship between relative humidity and confirmed cases.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
Man Li
Summary: This study examines the weather impacts on agriculture in Bangladesh and identifies the productive adaptations of farmers to expected and unexpected weather changes. The findings suggest that Bangladeshi farmers are resilient to temperatures below 32 degrees C but suffer significant declines in agricultural productivity due to exposure to extreme heat. The study emphasizes the importance of understanding farmers' adaptations to climate change in developing countries.
Article
Business, Finance
Patrick Bolton, Marcin Kacperczyk
Summary: The study shows that companies with higher carbon emissions tend to have higher stock returns, suggesting that investors may be demanding compensation for exposure to carbon emission risk.
JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Communication
Chao Yu, Drew B. Margolin, Jennifer R. Fownes, Danielle L. Eiseman, Allison M. Chatrchyan, Shorna B. Allred
Summary: The study found that while Democrats generally tweet more often about climate change than Republicans, within each party, tweeting frequency is primarily influenced by the level of concern among constituents rather than objective risks. Additionally, federal politicians are more partisan, while state and local politicians tend to play more to the crowd.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Morten Hertzum
Summary: In news production, journalists rely on information from various sources, and this study explores how they identify, interact with, interpret, and manage these sources. Journalists value a balanced group of sources but often exhibit bias in their selections. Interactions with sources reveal that they not only provide information for current stories but also contribute ideas for new stories. Journalists are aware of potential bias and misinformation from sources and use indirect checks to evaluate trustworthiness. They manage their relationships with sources through boundary work and cultivate long-term partnerships. The findings shed light on how journalism influences journalists' information seeking and have implications for information behavior research in other fields.
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Matthias Borgstede
Summary: The article discusses mechanisms of adaptive behavior and reinforcement learning, suggesting that individuals have an innate tendency to seek information about the local environment. The author proposes a selectionist account of adaptive behavior using the multilevel model of behavioral selection (MLBS) to explain why individuals behave as if they had a tendency to seek information.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Zhenxia Liu, Zengjie Wang, Jian Wang, Zhengfang Zhang, Dongshuang Li, Zhaoyuan Yu, Linwang Yuan, Wen Luo
Summary: This study introduces an improved method of the Globally Resolved Energy Balance (GREB) model by utilizing Bayesian networks based on a coarse-fine model. The improved method combines a dynamical model with a statistical model to achieve local optimization and exhibits higher accuracy and robustness in long-term simulations compared to the original GREB model. This approach provides a promising way to simulate climate reliably and stably.
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Hayley K. Jach, Colin G. DeYoung, Luke D. Smillie
Summary: The study proposed a conceptual model of information seeking that emphasizes how personality traits and perceptions of situations may influence motivations to seek information. Through two studies, the relationship between curiosity, openness/intellect, and information seeking was explored.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Timothy Hyde, Dolores Albarracin
Summary: Research shows that high temperature days breaking records strengthen people's belief in climate change, even after controlling for other factors. Each record-breaking high temperature day increases perceptions of worsening heat, with a greater impact on those skeptical of climate science.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Deven Carlson, Joseph Ripberger, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Carol Silva, Nina Carlson, Elizabeth Bell, Kuhika Gupta
Summary: Research has shown that people's subjective perceptions of weather are related to their beliefs about climate change. However, inconsistent and insufficient data have made it difficult to identify the causal impact of objective experiences on perceptions and beliefs about climate change. This study collected and analyzed data from a 5-year panel survey of 2,500 individuals in Oklahoma, a state with high divisions on climate change issues. The findings suggest that the relationship between local weather anomalies and climate change beliefs depends on baseline beliefs about climate change.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Joshua F. Inwald, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Marc Yaggi, Joseph Arvai
Summary: Water safety refers to the quality of drinking water and whether it contains dangerous contaminants. Limited access to safe water is estimated to affect around 5 billion people globally by 2050. Climate change and worsening severe weather events pose increasing threats to global water safety, but people may not realize the connection between climate change and water safety, which could undermine their willingness to take actions to improve water safety. This study analyzed survey data from the 2019 Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll in 142 countries to examine the relationship between people's concerns about severe weather, climate change, and water safety.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)