Publications related to Public opinion on climate change

Mining Effective Strategies for Climate Change Communication

Matthias Grossglauser, Aswin Suresh, Lazar Milikic, Yurui Zhu

With the goal of understanding effective strategies to communicate about climate change, we build interpretable models to rank tweets related to climate change with respect to the engagement they generate. Our models are based on the Bradley-Terry model of ...

2023

Clean air policies are key for successfully mitigating Arctic warming

Julia Schmale, Luca Pozzoli

A tighter integration of modeling frameworks for climate and air quality is urgently needed to assess the impacts of clean air policies on future Arctic and global climate. We combined a new model emulator and comprehensive emissions scenarios for air poll ...

2022

Swiss Negative Emissions Fund – paying for Net Zero

Philippe Thalmann, Sascha Nick

In this paper, we propose setting up a fund to finance the removal of all Swiss territorial GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions from 2030. The fund will accelerate decarbonization and help reach annual net zero emissions around 2040, and then progressively remo ...

E4S Enterprise for Society2022

What determines the attitude-behavior link when voting on renewable energy policies? The roles of problem perception and policy design

Philippe Thalmann

This chapter sheds light on the paradox between the general perception of climate change related problems and resistance to measures addressing it, namely the support of renewable energy policies at the ballot box. Using conjoint analyses, we investigate t ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2021

Exploring the Robustness of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Renovation Scenarios to Climate Change Perspectives: Results for a multi-family building in the Swiss context

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Emmanuel Rey, Émilie Nault

Building renovation is one of the main strategies put forth in western countries, where energy regulations are becoming increasingly demanding. Switzerland for example has set the ambitious target aiming at carbon neutrality for 2050. Building-integrated p ...

Universidade da Coruña2020

A Laplacian approach to stubborn agents and their role in opinion formation on influence networks

Melvyn Sandy Tyloo

Within the framework of a simple model for social influence, the Taylor model, we analytically investigate the role of stubborn agents in the overall opinion dynamics of networked systems. Similar to zealots, stubborn agents are biased towards a certain op ...

2020

Barriers to the implementation of international agreements on the ground: Climate change and resilience building in the Araucanía Region of Chile

Nicola Mary Banwell, Silvia Hostettler

Implementing disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and mitigation (CCA/M), and sustainable development are key to increasing community resilience to pressing climate change risks. Barriers to grassroots implementation of national and int ...

2020

Concerns of young protesters are justified

Philippe Thalmann, Dominique Bourg

In this letter, we recall that young people's concerns about climate change are based on our best scientific knowledge and that the measures taken so far by our authorities to protect the climate and the biosphere are far from up to the threat. We therefor ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

A User Study of Perceived Carbon Footprint

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof, Robin Adrien Zbinden, Lucas Maystre, Valentin Quelquejay-Leclère

We propose a statistical model to understand people's perception of their carbon footprint. Driven by the observation that few people think of CO2 impact in absolute terms, we design a system to probe people's perception from simple pairwise comparisons of ...

2019

Risk perception and decision-making: do farmers consider risks from climate change?

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Small-scale farmers are highly threatened by climate change. Experts often base their interventions to support farmers to adapt to climate change on their own perception of farmers' livelihood risks. However, if differences in risk perception between farme ...

SPRINGER2018

Global and local anthropogenic effects on hydrodynamics of lakes : applications to Lake Biel drinking water management

Carl Love Mikael Råman Vinnå

In many countries water quality is a major concern for drinking water management authorities. Freshwater is a limited resource and the demand for good-quality water from natural aquatic systems is therefore high. Additional stress arises from anthropogenic ...

EPFL2018

Katabatic winds diminish precipitation contribution to the Antarctic ice mass balance

Alexis Berne, Jacopo Grazioli

Snowfall in Antarctica is a key term of the ice sheet mass budget that influences the sea level at global scale. Over the continental margins, persistent katabatic winds blow all year long and supply the lower troposphere with unsaturated air. We show that ...

National Academy of Sciences2017

Negative elevation-dependent warming trend in the Eastern Alps

Mountain regions and the important ecosystem services they provide are considered to be very vulnerable to the current warming, and recent studies suggest that high-mountain environments experience more rapid changes in temperature than environments at low ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Multi-scale modelling to improve climate data for building energy models

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree

The recent AR5 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has again stressed on the need for mitigation and adaptation measures to tackle issues related to climate change. Tackling future urban planning and energy efficiency in the building ...

2015

Transplantation of subalpine wood-pasture turfs along a natural climatic gradient reveals lower resistance of unwooded pastures to climate change compared to wooded ones

Alexandre Buttler, Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov, Thomas Spiegelberger

Climate change could impact strongly on cold-adapted mountain ecosystems, but little is known about its interaction with traditional land-use practices. We used an altitudinal gradient to simulate a year-round warmer and drier climate for semi-natural suba ...

Springer2014

Column studies to assess the effects of climate variables on redox processes during riverbank filtration

Urs von Gunten, Janet Gordon Hering

Riverbank filtration is an established technique used world-wide to produce clean drinking water in a reliable and cost-efficient way. This practice is, however, facing new challenges posed by climate change, as already observed during past heat waves with ...

Elsevier2014

PLASIM-ENTSem v1.0: a spatio-temporal emulator of future climate change for impacts assessment

Frédéric Louis François Babonneau

Many applications in the evaluation of climate impacts and environmental policy require detailed spatio-temporal projections of future climate. To capture feedbacks from impacted natural or socio-economic systems requires interactive two-way coupling, but ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2014

Land management trumps the effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on grassland functioning

Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Aurélie Thébault

Grasslands cover similar to 30% of the Earth's terrestrial surface and provide many ecosystem services. Many grasslands are heavily managed to maximize these services for human benefit, but the outcome of management is anticipated to be increasingly inf ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

A robust framework for probabilistic precipitations downscaling from an ensemble of climate predictions applied to Switzerland

André Mermoud, Bettina Schaefli, Xavier Beuchat

Rainfall is poorly modeled by general circulation models (GCMs) and requires appropriate downscaling for local-scale hydrological impact studies. Such downscaling methods should be robust and accurate (to handle, e.g., extreme events and uncertainties), bu ...

2012

A Probabilistic Approach to Socio-Geographic Reality Mining

Katayoun Farrahi

As we live our daily lives, our surroundings know about it. Our surroundings consist of people, but also our electronic devices. Our mobile phones, for example, continuously sense our movements and interactions. This socio-geographic data could be continuo ...

EPFL2011