#climate scientists

Excerpt from this story from Anthropocene Magazine:

Scientists rate as the most trusted and most listened-to source of information about climate change in some of the most populous countries in the Global South, according to a new study.

Study participants’ “understanding of climate issues was not that much lower than in Global North countries in spite of the gap in formal education levels,” says study team member Thomas Sterner, an environmental economist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Sterner and his colleagues conducted an online survey of 8,400 people, with 1,200 participants in each of seven countries: Chile, Columbia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Vietnam. The study included questions about people’s climate change knowledge, information sources, and policy preferences.

Relatively few studies have investigated climate change attitudes in the Global South, and there are even fewer broad surveys that enable comparison of views across multiple countries. But this information is “vital,” Sterner says, “since most of the future emissions may come from these countries.”

Study participants were asked to rank 12 different sources of information about climate change in terms of how much they pay attention to and how much they trust each. Across all countries, scientists ranked first for both trust and attention, the researchers report in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Within each country, scientists ranked highest in trust everywhere except Vietnam, where they came second to TV programs. Mainstream media sources also rate highly for both trust and attention across this set of countries.

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How a biofuel crop can mitigate climate change

Good News Notes: “Newly published Michigan State University research details how switchgrass, a biofuel crop, can mitigate effects of climate change when grown on marginal land—agricultural land of little value. For farmers, it may also provide economic returns in these otherwise unproductive spaces. The research was published in Environmental Research Letters. The team was led by Bruno Basso, an…