Saturday, 26 January 2013

Public Acceptance of Climate Change Affected by Word Usage

Columbia MO (SPX) Jan 24, 2013



Public acceptance of climate change's reality may have been influenced by the rate at which words moved from scientific journals into the mainstream, according to anthropologist Michael O'Brien, dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri.

A recent study of word usage in popular literature by O'Brien and his colleagues documented how the usage of certain words ....