{"id":32292,"date":"2011-03-06T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/is-the-planet-warming-new-research-suggests-the-answer-could-depend-on-wording-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:43:49","slug":"is-the-planet-warming-new-research-suggests-the-answer-could-depend-on-wording-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/is-the-planet-warming-new-research-suggests-the-answer-could-depend-on-wording-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Is the Planet Warming? New research suggests the answer could depend on wording | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taeggan Goddard over at Political Wire sent over <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2011\/03\/04\/whether_the_planet_is_warming_depends_on_wording.html\">this interesting piece<\/a> on research out of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/poq.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2011\/02\/21\/poq.nfq073.short?rss=1\">The University of Michigan<\/a>. A new study found that the language used to describe our warming planet may influence listeners&rsquo; reactions.<\/p><p>According to research by Schuldt, Konrath, and Schwarz, Republicans are less likely to say that global climate change is real when it&rsquo;s referred to as &ldquo;global warming&rdquo; (44.0%) instead of &ldquo;climate change&rdquo; (60.2%). Meanwhile, word choice does not seem to matter for Democrats. The investigators observed the partisan divide dropped from 42.9 percentage points when they used &ldquo;global warming&rdquo; to 26.2 percentage points when they used &ldquo;climate change.&rdquo;<\/p><p>In other words, language matters tremendously and the outcome of polls can be highly dependent upon it.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4qGS7stA6NiJZQv9tmgDhQjnSnk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c68ab_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4qGS7stA6NiJZQv9tmgDhQjnSnk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c68ab_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c68ab_Ypt3o98VTiU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c68ab_1U15laX5K_g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taeggan Goddard over at Political Wire sent over this interesting piece on research out of The University of Michigan. A new study found that the language used to describe our warming planet may influence listeners&rsquo; reactions.According to research by Schuldt, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/is-the-planet-warming-new-research-suggests-the-answer-could-depend-on-wording-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}