Tyler Martin Ms. K Environmental Science 1/29/15 Summary The article “Making Sense of Climate Change, Orientations to Adaptation” details, not only the definition of climate change, but how it is perceived by different social groups. The research group tackled the question of what climate change meant to specific groups of people and what their thoughts surrounding the topics were. To determine the differences of how climate change was perceived by different social groups, the researchers asked the various groups to write the first word that came to mind when they thought of climate change. They then looked at the backgrounds of these social groups, which were defined by being scientific, government, or general public backgrounds in order to better understand the groups’ perception of climate change. The article concluded: “The results suggest that there is a common core set of concepts shared by the different groups, but there
Tyler MartinMs. KEnvironmental Science1/29/15SummaryThe article
Making Sense of Climate Change, Orientations to Adaptation details,
not only the definition of climate change, but how it is perceived
by different social groups. The research group tackled the question
of what climate change meant to specific groups of people and what
their thoughts surrounding the topics were. To determine the
differences of how climate change was perceived by different social
groups, the researchers asked the various groups to write the first
word that came to mind when they thought of climate change. They
then looked at the backgrounds of these social groups, which were
defined by being scientific, government, or general public
backgrounds in order to better understand the groups perception of
climate change. The article concluded: The results suggest that
there is a common core set of concepts shared by the different
groups, but there are also a great many differences in how climate
change is framed and conceived by respondents.
