Harnessing Deep Learning to Monitor People’s Perceptions Towards Climate Change on Social Media

Harnessing deep learning to monitor people’s perceptions towards climate change on social media

Social media has become a popular stage for people’s views over climate change. Monitoring how climate change is perceived on social media is relevant for informed decision-making. This work advances the way social media users’ perceptions and reactions towards climate change can be understood over time, by implementing a scalable methodological framework grounded on natural language processing. The framework was tested in over 1771 thousand X/T…

Climate scientists are trusted globally, just not as much as other scientists – here’s why – Famagusta Gazette

I. Noyan Yilmaz, Shutterstock Omid Ghasemi, UNSW Sydney and Ben Newell, UNSW Sydney Societies increasingly rely on scientists to guide decisions in times of uncertainty, from pandemic outbreaks to the rise of artificial intelligence. Addressing climate change is no different. For governments wanting to introduce ambitious climate policies, public trust in climate scientists is pivotal, because it can determine whether voters support or resist th…

First signs of change spotted in a climate driver that could end the drought

The next weather system arrives in the west late next week, another big push of moisture from the Indian Ocean.