Joanna K. Huxster

TL;DR: This article conducted an empirical analysis of the factors affecting national-level, quarterly shifts in public concern about climate change between January 2001 and December 2014 and found that partisan media not only strengthen views of like-minded audiences but also when Republicans are presented with opposing frames about climate changes from liberal media, they appear to reject the messages such that they are less concerned about the issue.

TL;DR: This article found that students frequently confuse climate change with other environmental issues, and that a substantial majority of students do not have an understanding of climate change that closely matches the scientific model, and these misconceptions extend to their understanding of mitigation actions.

TL;DR: The authors argued that cultural values are better predictors than scientific literacy for whether agents trust the publicly-directed claims of the scientific community, and argued that a common way of thinking about scientific literacy, as knowledge of particular scientific facts or concepts, should give way to a second-order understanding of science as a process as a more important notion for the public's trust of science.

TL;DR: The results indicate that epistemic success terms are inconsistently defined, and that measurement of understanding, in particular, is rarely achieved in public understanding of science studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ macro political analysis of all relevant polling data available on the Roper iPoll Database to develop reliable and valid measures of aggregate public concern over the issue of climate change across a 13-year time-period.