Stuart Capstick

@article{2025,

title = {Perspectives of artist-practitioners on the communication of climate change in the Pacific},

author = {S Capstick and S Hemstock and R Senikula},

url = {http://orca.cf.ac.uk/105139/},

issn = {1756-8692},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

journal = {International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management},

volume = {10},

pages = {323-339},

chapter = {323},

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@article{2056,

title = {Intermediariestextquoteright perspectives on the publictextquoterights role in the energy transitions needed to deliver UK climate change policy goals},

author = {C Shaw and V Hurth and S Capstick and E Cox},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421518300727},

doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2018.02.002},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Energy Policy},

volume = {116},

pages = {267-276},

chapter = {267},

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pubstate = {published},

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@article{568,

title = {International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century},

author = {S Capstick and L Whitmarsh and W Poortinga and N Pidgeon and P Upham},

url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.343/abstract},

doi = {10.1002/wcc.343},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

journal = {Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change},

volume = {6},

pages = {35-61},

chapter = {35},

abstract = {<p>Public perceptions of climate change are known to differ between nations and to have fluctuated over time. Numerous plausible characterizations of these variations, and explanations for them, are to be found in the literature. However, a clear picture has not yet emerged as to the principal trends and patterns that have occurred over the past quarter-century or the factors behind these changes. This systematic review considers previous empirical research that has addressed the temporal aspects to public perceptions. We address findings that have been obtained since the 1980s and using a range of methodologies. In this review, we consider early, seminal work examining public perceptions; survey studies carried out over long timescales and at an international scale; detailed statistical analyses of the drivers of changing perceptions; and qualitative research featuring a longitudinal component. Studies point to growing skepticism in the latter 2000s in some developed countries, underpinned by economic and sociopolitical factors. Even so, in many parts of the world, there has been growing concern about climate change in recent years. We conclude that the imbalance in the literature toward polling data, and toward studies of public perceptions in Western nations (particularly the United States), leaves much unknown about the progression of public understanding of climate change worldwide. More research is required that uses inferential statistical procedures to understand the reasons behind trends in public perceptions. The application of qualitative longitudinal methodologies also offers the potential for better appreciation of the cultural contexts in which climate change perceptions are evolving. WIREs Clim Change 2015, 6:35–61. doi: 10.1002/wcc.321<br type="_moz"> </p>},

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@article{567,

title = {What is climate change scepticism? Examination of the concept using a mixed methods study of the UK public},

author = {S Capstick and N Pidgeon},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

journal = {Global Environmental Change},

volume = {24},

pages = {389-401},

chapter = {389},

abstract = {<p>The holding of doubts about climate change is often referred to as &$#$39;scepticism&$#$39;. However, there has been a lack of clarity in previous work as to what exactly this scepticism comprises. We integrate data obtained from discussion groups and a nationally representative survey, to interrogate and refine the concept of climate change scepticism with respect to the views of members of the public. We argue that two main types should be distinguished: epistemic scepticism, relating to doubts about the status of climate change as a scientific and physical phenomenon; and response scepticism, relating to doubts about the efficacy of action taken to address climate change. Whilst each type is independently associated by people themselves with climate change scepticism, we find that the latter is more strongly associated with a lack of concern about climate change. As such, additional effort should be directed towards addressing and engaging with people&$#$39;s doubts concerning attempts to address climate change. © 2013 The Authors.</p>},

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@article{566,

title = {Public perception of cold weather events as evidence for and against climate change},

author = {S Capstick and N Pidgeon},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

journal = {Climatic Change},

pages = {1-14},

chapter = {1},

abstract = {<p>It has been argued that <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">public</span> doubts about <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">climate</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">change</span> have been exacerbated by <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">cold</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">weather</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">events</span> seen as a form of disconfirming <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">evidence</span> for anticipated &$#$39;warming&$#$39;. Although a link between <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">perceptions</span> of <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">climate</span> and <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">weather</span> is well-established, such assumptions have not been empirically tested. Here we show, using nationally representative data, that directly following a period of severe <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">cold</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">weather</span> in the UK, three times as many people saw these <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">events</span> as pointing towards the reality of <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">climate</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">change</span>, than as disconfirming it. This we argue was a consequence of these <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">cold</span> winters being incorporated into a conceptualisation of extreme or &$#$39;unnatural&$#$39; <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">weather</span> resulting from <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">climate</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">change</span>. We also show that the way in which people interpret <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">cold</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">weather</span> is associated with levels of pre-existing scepticism about <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">climate</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">change</span>, which is in turn related to more general worldviews. Drawing attention to &$#$39;extreme&$#$39; <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">weather</span> as a consequence of <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">climate</span><span class="ScopusTermHighlight">change</span> can be a useful communication device, however this is problematic in the case of seasonal <span class="ScopusTermHighlight">cold</span>. © 2013 The Author(s).</p>},

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@article{1165,

title = {Uncertain climate: An investigation into public scepticism about anthropogenic climate change},

author = {W Poortinga and A Spence and L Whitmarsh and S Capstick and N Pidgeon},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

journal = {Global Environmental Change},

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