Outline

  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Materials and Methods
  • 2.1. Method Lay Knowledge and Beliefs Study
  • 2.1.1. Measures
  • 2.2. Method of the Medialog
  • 2.2.1. Population of Media Messages
  • 2.2.2. Research Sample
  • 2.2.3. Measures
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. Knowledge of Co2, Electricity Mix and Climate Change
  • 3.1.1. Co2
  • 3.1.2. Electricity Mix
  • 3.1.3. Climate Change
  • 3.1.4. Understanding of the Causal Chain Between Energy Use and Climate Change
  • 3.2. Ccs Awareness and Knowledge
  • 3.2.1. Ccs Awareness
  • 3.2.2. Ccs Knowledge – Goals
  • 3.2.3. Ccs Knowledge – Source Points
  • 3.2.4. Ccs Knowledge – Storage
  • 3.2.5. Evaluative Statements on Ccs
  • 3.3. Results from the Media Analysis
  • 3.3.1. Co2 in the Media
  • 3.3.2. Electricity Mix in the Media
  • 3.3.3. Climate Change in the Media
  • 3.3.4. Ccs Awareness in the Media
  • 3.3.5. Ccs Knowledge in the Media
  • 3.3.6. Newspapers As a Source of Misperceptions
  • 4. Discussion
  • 4.1. Public Awareness of Ccs
  • 4.2. Relation Between Opinion and Media Exposure
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References

رئوس مطالب

  • چکیده
  • کلید واژه ها
  • 1. مقدمه
  • 2. مواد و روش ها
  • 2.1. روش تحقیق بر روی دانش و باورها
  • 2.1.1. مقیاس ها : آگاهی
  • دانش CO2
  • دانش ccs
  • درک ذخیره سازی
  • نتایج ادراکی ccs
  • ارزیابی ccs
  • نگرش ccs
  • معرف رسانه
  • 2.2. روش لوگ رسانه ای: جهت پیام های رسانه ای
  • نمونه تحقیق
  • سو درک ها
  • 3. نتایج
  • 3.1. دانش CO2، ترکیب الکتریکی و زیر تغییر آب و هوا
  • ترکیب الکتریسیته
  • تغییر آب و هوا
  • درک زنجیره اتفاقی بین مصرف انرژی و تغییر آب و هوا
  • 2.3. دانش و آگاهی ccs
  • آگاهی ccs
  • اهداف دانش ccs
  • دانش ccs:ذخیره سازی
  • ارزیابی ccs
  • 3.3. نتایج تحلیل رسانه ای
  • 3.3.1. CO2 در رسانه
  • 3.3.2. ترکیب برق در رسانه
  • 3.3.3. تغییر آب و هوا در رسانه
  • 3.3.4. آگاهی ccs در رسانه ها
  • 3.3.6. روزنامه به عنوان منبع تغییرات اشتباه
  • 4. بحث
  • 4.1. آگاهی مردمی از ccs
  • 4.2. رابطه بین عقاید و رسانه ها
  • 5. نتیجه گیری

Abstract

This study aims to increase understanding of the public view on CO2 capture and storage (CCS) and energy innovations in the Netherlands. The study is based on the premise that to understand the public’s concerns and to predict their future opinion, it is necessary to know how people arrive at their evaluations about CCS. The study described in this paper aimed to enhance insight into currently held beliefs and awareness among the general public about CCS and CO2 as well as to investigate the role of the media as a vehicle for knowledge transfer. To meet the first aim, we interviewed 15 lay people to identify commonly held beliefs. Next, we investigated the prevalence of these beliefs by administering a questionnaire among 401 respondents. To meet the second aim, we analyzed the 430 articles mentioning CCS in all major Dutch newspapers from mid-2009 to mid-2010 and investigated respondents’ media use and exposure to recent media events about CCS. The survey revealed several beliefs that were shared by a large group of respondents, some of which were factually incorrect. The media analysis did not yield evidence that national newspapers reinforce or create particular misperceptions such as found in the survey.

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Conclusions

This study illustrates the nature and magnitude of doubts and knowledge gaps among the general Dutch public regarding our energy system, CO2, climate change and CCS. Only very few people understand how our current use of fossil fuels leads to CO2 emissions which in turn lead to climate change, even though almost all people state to know about global warming. The test revealed several misconceptions that were shared by a major percentage of the respondents, some of which also influenced the general attitude towards CCS. However, attitude towards CCS was mainly related to perceived risks and benefits of the technology as well as to more normative evaluations of the use of the technology.

The media analysis did not yield evidence that national newspapers reinforce or create particular misperceptions as found in the interviews and survey. However, newspaper reading will also contribute little if anything to correcting misperceptions or filling the ‘blanks’ in people’s knowledge. That said, we do not state that this should be a primary task of newspapers. News media and information media are two very different things. However, it is one of the tasks of journalists to take into account their readers’ level of comprehension of the issue they write about. Since our research has shown that people have little knowledge, even the highly educated regular readers of newspapers, it could be argued that news articles on CCS may need to be enriched with a bit more context information to be understandable for and not to mention appealing to a wider audience beyond people who are already knowledgeable about CCS.

It can be argued that the knowledge gaps found in this study are not influential to attitudes towards CCS alone. If the general population does not understand the problem our society faces when we do not mitigate CO2 emissions, it will be extremely hard to get their approval of any kind of CO2 mitigation option, be it large wind turbine parks or home renovations to improve energy efficiency.

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