Climate communication for biologists: when a picture can tell a thousand words

Lewandowsky, Stephan and Whitmarsh, Lorraine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-1040 2018. Climate communication for biologists: when a picture can tell a thousand words. PLoS Biology 16 (10) , e2006004. 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006004

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Abstract

Pictures often tell a story better than the proverbial 1,000 words. However, in connection with climate change, many pictures can be highly misleading, for example, when a snowball is used to ridicule the notion of global warming or when a picture of a dead crop is supposed to alert people to climate change. We differentiate between such inappropriate pictures and those that can be used legitimately because they capture long-term trends. For example, photos of a glacier’s retreat are legitimate indicators of the long-term mass balance loss that is observed for the vast majority of glaciers around the world.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Public Library of Science
ISSN:	1544-9173
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 October 2018
Date of Acceptance:	31 August 2018
Last Modified:	07 May 2023 05:53
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/115737

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