Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of
misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation …

Manual exploratory literature reviews should be a thing of the past, as technology and
development of machine learning methods have matured. The learning curve for using …

This paper investigates how ExxonMobil uses rhetoric and framing to shape public
discourse on climate change. We present an algorithmic corpus comparison and machine …

Climate change presents a challenge at multiple levels: It challenges our cognitive abilities
because the effect of the accumulation of emissions is difficult to understand. Climate …

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic models are increasingly being used in communication
research. Yet, questions regarding reliability and validity of the approach have received little …

Denial of scientific findings is neither a new nor an unexplored phenomenon. In the area of
environmental science and policy though, the research on denial has not been …

Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that the Earth is getting warmer and that the rise in
average global temperature is predominantly due to human activity. Yet a significant …

Climate change has been the subject of increasing efforts by scientists to understand its
causes and implications; it has been of growing interest to policymakers, international …

Framing—selecting certain aspects of a given issue and making them more salient in
communication in order to “frame” the issue in a specific way—is a key concept in the study …

This study uses a topical, rhetorical approach to analyze how climate change denial
circulates online through the 25 most popular posts on the Watts Up With That and the …