Do Focusing Events Focus Attention? Text Analysis of Climate Discourse After Disasters

• In Event: Naturral Disasters, Climate Perception, and Policy Preferences

Brief Overview

Using computational topic models of 25,000 climate-related news articles near 200 U.S. natural disasters, we find that disasters can increase coverage of climate impacts, but some disaster types reduce attention to policy-focused topics.

Authors

• Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray, Harvard University

• Leanne Giordono, Oregon State University

• Hilary Boudet, Oregon State University