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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Will actually listen if we stop saying “extreme weather” & “climate change” & just say the atmosphere is being radicalized”). Theme 4. Climate change deniers The fourth theme involved commentary on individuals or groups who were perceived to deny climate change. Generally, these were politicians and associated political parties, such as: Malcolm Roberts (a climate change skeptic, elected as an Australian Senator in 2016), Malcolm Turnbull, and Donald Trump. Commentary focused on the beliefs and legitimacy of those who deny the science of climate change (“One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change”) or support the denial of climate change science (“Meanwhile in Australia... Malcolm Roberts, funded by climate change skeptic global groups loses the plot when nobody believes his findings”). Some users advocated attempts to change the beliefs of those who deny climate change science (“We have a president-elect who doesn’t believe in climate change. Millions of people are going to have to say: Mr. Trump, you are dead wrong”), whereas others advocated disengaging from conversation entirely (“You know I just don’t see any point engaging with climate change deniers like Roberts. Ignore him”). In comparison to other themes, commentary revolved around individuals and their beliefs, rather than the phenomenon of climate change itself. Theme 5. The legitimacy of climate change and climate science This theme concerns the reality of climate change (“How do we know this climate change thing is real - not a natural cycle, not an elaborate hoax?”) and the associated practice of climate science (“#CSIROcuts will damage Aus ability to understand, respond to & plan for #climatechange”).Footnote 7 Compared to other themes, content collated under this theme contained a wide variety of sentiment. Whereas some tweets endorse anthropogenic causes of climate change, others question the contribution of humans to climate change (“COWS FARTS CAUSE MORE THAN WE DO”) and question its existence entirely (“The effects of Climate Change ?? OK, lets talk facts.....which effects are those ??”). DiscussionUsing our four-phased framework, we aimed to identify and qualitatively inspect the most enduring aspects of climate change commentary from Australian posts on
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