Publications​ (please contact me for a copy of any articles that are not open access)
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• Fang, X., Ettinger, J., Innocenti, S. (2025). United Nations Environment Assembly attendees underestimate public willingness to contribute to climate action. Commun Earth Environ 6, 622.

 

• Ettinger, J., Fine, J., Yue, Y., Kotcher, J., Marlon, J., Carman, J., Rosenthal, S., Myers, T., Ortiz, L., Verner, M., Leiserowitz, A., & Maibach, E. (2025). About half of Americans understand that global warming is increasing homeowners insurance costs. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

 

• Fine, J., Ettinger, J., Goddard, E., Kotcher, J., Zakiyyah, H., Yue, Y., Carman, J., Rosenthal, S., Thier, K., Myers, T., Verner, M., Marlon, J., Richards, E., Goldberg, M., Leiserowitz, A., & Maibach, E. (2025). Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
  
  
• Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Rosenthal, S., Kotcher, J., Goddard, E., Carman, J., Myers, T., Verner, M., Marlon, J., Goldberg, M., Ettinger, J., Fine, J., & Thier, K. (2024). Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2024. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
  
  
• Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Rosenthal, S., Kotcher, J., Goddard, E., Carman, J., Myers, T., Verner, M., Marlon, J., Goldberg, M., Ettinger, J., Fine, J., & Thier, K. (2024). Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2024. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
  
  
• Ettinger, J., Fine, J., Thier, K., Badullovich, N., Kotcher, J., Maibach, E. (2025). Communicating with policymakers about climate change, health, and their intersection: a scoping review. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9,1.

 

• Thomas‐Walters, L., Cologna, V., de Lange, E., Ettinger, J., Selinske, M., & Jones, M. S. (2024). Reframing conservation audiences from individuals to social beings. Conversation Letters, e13064.
  
  
• Ettinger, J., Walton, P., Painter, J. , Fielding, K.S., Gulliver, R., Otto, F.E.L. (2024). Examining contrasting influences of extreme weather events on individual climate activism. Global Environmental Psychology, 2.

 

• Ettinger, J., Sanford, M., Walton, P., Holmes, D., Painter, J. (2023). Social media messaging of climate action NGOs: a case study of the 2019-2020 Australian Black Summer bushfires, Oxford Open Climate Change, 3,1.

 

• Ettinger, J., Walton, P., Painter, J., Flocke, S., Otto, F.O. (2023). Extreme weather events as teachable moments: catalyzing climate change learning and action through conversation. Environmental Communication, 7.

 

• Ettinger, J. (2023). Extreme weather events are exactly the time to talk about climate change – here's why. The Conversation.

 

• Ettinger, J., Painter, J. (2023). The science of climate conversations. Social Media and Society 1-5.

 

• Painter, J., Ettinger, J., Holmes, D., Loy, L., Pinto, J., Richardson, L., Thomas-Walters, L., Vowles, K., Wetts, R. (2023). Climate delay discourses present in global mainstream television coverage of the IPCC’s 2021 report. Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 118.

 

• Ettinger, J. How to talk to your family and friends about the new IPCC report – five tips from climate change communication research. The Conversation.

 

• Ettinger, J., McGivern, A., Speigel, M., et al. (2023). Breaking the climate spiral of silence: lessons from a COP26 climate conversations campaign. Climatic Change, 176, 22.

 

• O'Neill, S., Hayes, S., Strauβ, N., Doutreix, M.N., Steentjes, K., Ettinger, J., Westwood, N., Painter, J. (2022). Visual portrayals of fun in the sun in European news oulets misrepresent heatwave risks. The Geographical Journal, 189, 1.

   

• Ettinger, J. 2022. Don't Look Up shows bashing people over the head with facts does not work. The Conversation.

 

• Painter, J., Ettinger, J., Doutreix, Strauss, N., M., Wonneberger, A., Walton, P. 2021. Is it climate change? Coverage by online news sites of the 2019 European summer heatwaves in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Climatic Change, 149, 4.

 

• Strauss, N., Painter, J., Ettinger, J., Doutreix, M., Wonneberger, A., Walton, P. 2021. Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change: Journalists’ Attitudes, Motivations and Role Perceptions. Journalism Practice.
  
  
• ​Ettinger, J., Walton P., Painter, J., Osaka, S., Otto, F.E.L. 2020. "What's Up with the Weather?" Public Engagement with Extreme Event Attribution in the UK. Weather, Climate and Society​, 13, 2 (open access).
  • ​Interview about this research with Energi Media
  • Summary in Oxford University's True Planet campaign

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• Ettinger, J., Walton, P., Painter, J., DiBlasi, T. 2020. Climate of hope or doom and gloom? Should we scare or inspire the public into action? Climatic Change​, 164:19. (Click here for an open access link or contact me for a PDF) 
  • ​Research featured in Grist

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• ​Ettinger, J., Otto, F.E.L., Schipper, F.L. 2021. Storytelling Can Be a Powerful Tool for Science. Nature, 589, 352.

     

• ​Ettinger, J. 2020. What Hollywood can teach researchers about science storytelling. Nature (Online).

 

• Ettinger, J. 2020. Taking storytelling seriously. Oxford Magazine​.

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• Painter, J., Osaka, S., Ettinger, J., Walton, P. 2020. Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015. Global Environmental Change, 63, 102119.

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• Environmentalists: Be Careful with Climate and Coronavirus Rhetoric (Inkline, March 2020)

 

• How Geralt the Witcher Would Fight Climate Change (Medium blog, January 2020)

 

• Lessons from The Office for Climate Change Communication (Medium blog, October 2019)

 

• Tony Juniper on the Past, Present and Future of Environmental Advocacy (Anthroposphere, the Oxford Climate Review, February 2019)

 

• Hope, Fear and the Extinction Rebellion – (Climate Outreach, January 2019)

 

• Don’t Forget About Tropical Forests at COP24 –  (Global Canopy, December 2018)

 

• Evidence-based Storytelling: How Screenwriting Principles Can Enhance Environmental Communication – (Anthroposphere, the Oxford Climate Review, April 2018)

 

• Wyndham J., et al. (2015) Social Responsibilities: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Perspectives of Scientists, Engineers and Health Professionals American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

 

• Ettinger, J. and Wyndham, J. (2015). Investigating the Perceived Social Responsibilities of Scientists, Engineers and Health Professionals. Professional Ethics Report, 28(1)​​