论文标题
野火和气候变化：社交媒体告诉我们什么联系和公众理解？ （初步白皮书，2022年2月11日）
Wildfires and Climate Change: What does social media tell us on linkages and public understanding? (Preliminary White Paper, February 11, 2022)
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论文摘要
在美国西部，野火的频率和规模越来越高，历史上最致命的大火发生在过去几年中。公众以及当选官员，使用社交媒体来传达有关影响其社区的主题的观点和知识。我们利用平台Twitter评估近期事件期间野火与气候变化的联系，并评估公众与其政府官员之间的知识差异。结果表明，野火因果关系的某些联系，尽管这种关系并不大（仅5％），甚至在政府层面上甚至较低（2％），这表明更多的公众和政府没有将气候变化与最近的极端野火联系起来。
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and size across the western U.S., with some of the deadliest fires in recorded history occurring in the last few years. The public, as well as elected officials, use social media to convey opinions and knowledge on topics that are impacting their communities. We utilize the platform Twitter to assess connections of wildfire to climate change during recent events and evaluate the differences in knowledge between the public and their government officials. Results show some linkages of wildfire cause and effect, although this relationship was not large (only 5%) and was even lower at the governmental level (2%), suggesting that a broader number of the public and government did not relate climate change to recent extreme wildfires.
