Public understanding in Great Britain of ocean acidification
Public understanding in Great Britain of ocean acidification
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DOI：
10.1038/nclimate3005
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
影响因子：
30.7
通讯作者：
Pearson, Paul N.
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作者：
Capstick, Stuart B.;Pidgeon, Nick F.;Pearson, Paul N.
公众对气候变化的参与对于保持有意义的减排动力至关重要。海洋酸化日益被海洋科学家认为是人为排放的一个重要但往往被忽视的后果(1，2)。虽然现在有大量证据表明，人们对气候变化的理解更为笼统(3)，但公众对开放式学习的看法却知之甚少。在这里，我们首次使用2013年至2014年期间在英国(n=2,501)获得的调查数据，详细描述了人们对这一主题的理解。我们借鉴了风险感知的理论，并考虑了个人价值观如何影响人们对开放存取的态度。我们发现，与气候变化相比，公众对开放式学习的认识很低，而且没有受到IPCC第五次评估报告的影响。使用实验方法，我们发现，提供基本信息可以加强对开放存取的关注，然而，我们发现，如果话题明确地与气候变化相关联，则可能会发生基于价值的态度极化。我们讨论了我们的发现对公众参与开放获取的影响，以及从与气候变化有关的传播研究中吸取经验教训的重要性。
Public engagement with climate change is critical for maintaining the impetus for meaningful emissions cuts. Ocean acidification (OA) is increasingly recognized by marine scientists as an important, but often overlooked, consequence of anthropogenic emissions(1,2). Although substantial evidence now exists concerning people's understanding of climate change more generally(3), very little is known about public perceptions of OA. Here, for the first time, we characterize in detail people's understanding of this topic using survey data obtained in Great Britain (n = 2,501) during 2013 and 2014. We draw on theories of risk perception and consider how personal values influence attitudes towards OA. We find that public awareness of OA is very low compared to that of climate change, and was unaffected by the publication of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Using an experimental approach, we show that providing basic information can heighten concern about OA, however, we find that attitude polarization along value-based lines may occur if the topic is explicitly associated with climate change. We discuss the implications of our findings for public engagement with OA, and the importance of learning lessons from communications research relating to climate change.