"We specifically study how a severe climate disaster, Hurricane Ian, shaped public opinion in the Republican-dominated American South. Our study focuses on attitudes in four Southern swing states, where climate-skeptic and anti-migrant politics intersect and where voters are cross-pressured by climate change and migration."
ARIAS, S.B. and BLAIR, C.W. (2024) ‘In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes’, American Political Science Review, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000352
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READ THE ABSTRACT. Especially the last few lines. That's the problem we need to consider....
@PaulWermer I have read the abstract. How would do you think the fleeting nature of the response can be made permanent?
@bibliolater @PaulWermer I don't think there's a blanket solution, and it's difficult to sustain the salience of climate change, given all the (mostly more immediate) problems people face in their lives.
One area that's come up in my research is that people who don't feel like they can do much about climate change are unlikely to see it as high salience. So increasing people's efficacy about climate change could potentially help.
@bibliolater I wish I knew the details. My uninformed take: We really need to work on sound-bite story telling, such as the right has used on abortion and immigration, linking the hurricane impacts in other stories re other climate related impacts - droughts & floods heat and esp cold waves, wildfire, algal blooms,
Working it to the narrative will take skill, and the narrative needs a more optimistic " this is how we can make things better w/o extreme sacrifice" close. Doom and gloom just makes people think why bother?
I'd love to hear a guru like @kathhayhoe weigh in with her thoughts