Media & News

• Selected media coverage of “Attributing agnostically detected large reductions in road CO2 emissions to policy mixes“, 2022, Nature Energy.
  • Der Standard: “Studie stellt österreichischer Verkehrspolitik schlechtes Zeugnis aus“
  • Morning News: “Fuel price increases and green vehicle incentives: The best climate policy for road transport“
  • Univ. of Oxford Smith School Press Release: “Identifying the public policies that cut road transport emissions by up to 26%“
• Selected media coverage of “Variation in responsiveness to warranted behaviour change among NHS clinicians: novel implementation of change detection methods in longitudinal prescribing data“, 2019, in the BMJ.
  • BMJ Editorial: “One day or day one? Uptake of new prescribing guidance in general practice”
  • Medscape: “Some GPs Can Take Months To Adopt New Prescribing Guidelines“
  • Financial Times (Tim Harford): “There is science behind the spread of good ideas“

• Selected media coverage of “Uncertain impacts on economic growth when stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5°C or 2°C warming“, 2018, in Phil. Trans. A.
  • Carbon Brief Interview: “Limiting global warming to 1.5C would have ‘significant economic benefits“
  • The Daily Mail: “Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail: studies“
  • CBC Canada: “Paris goal too little to avoid worst effects of climate change, scientists say“
  • Huffington Post: “Même un réchauffement climatique limité à 2° aura une incidence importante“
  • Swiss National Radio (SRF) Interview: “Mehr als 1,5 Grad sind Gift für die Weltwirtschaft“

• Selected media coverage of “Spatial heterogeneity of climate change as an experiential basis for skepticism“, 2017, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
  • Scientific American: “Climate Change Skepticism Fueled by Gut Reaction to Local Weather“
  • The Independent: “Americans who live in cold places ‘less likely to believe in global warming’“
  • Daily Mail: “The climate change deniers map of America: Researchers find those who don’t believe in global warming are likely to live in a cold area“
  • Forbes: “Beliefs About Climate Change May Reflect A Failure To Understand What Climate Change Is“
  • Breitbart: “Those who experience hot weather likely to buy global warming“
  • Forskning.no (Norwegian Popular Science Magazine): “Holdninger til klimaendringer kan henge sammen med været der du bor“
  • Oxford Martin School News: “Study suggests people’s belief in climate change is influenced by their local weather“
  • Interview with ORF (Austrian Public Broadcasting): “Klimawandel: Skepsis gedeiht in der Kälte“
  • Radio Interview with OE1 (Austrian Public Radio): “Klimawandel: Je kühler, desto skeptischer“

• Selected media coverage of “Carbon Dioxide Emission-Intensity in Climate Projections: Comparing the Observational Record to Socio-Economic Scenarios” (Pretis and Roser, 2017) in Energy:
  • Oxford University Science Blog
  • Phys.org

• Selected media coverage of “Detecting Volcanic Eruptions in Temperature Reconstructions by Designed Break-Indicator Saturation” (Pretis et. al 2016) in Journal of Economic Surveys:
  • Columbia University article: “Accounting for Volcanoes Using Tools of Economics” 
  • British Academy blog post.
  • State of the Planet blog post.
  • Article at phys.org.
  • Science Daily article.
  • Heritage Daily post.
  • WessexLifeScience post.
  • Volcano Madness blog.

• The Economist article on the warming hiatus referencing “Testing Competing Models of the Temperature Hiatus” (Pretis et al. 2015) in Climatic Change

• Selected media coverage on the research by Estrada et al. (2013) and “Climate Science: Breaks in Trends“, (Pretis and Allen, 2013) in Nature Geoscience:
  • BBC News: ‘Ozone chemicals ban linked to global warming ‘pause’
  • National Geographic: ‘Montreal Protocol helped slow down global warming’
  • Science News: ‘ Historical events linked to changes in Earth’s temperature’
  • The Australian: ‘Ozone Action linked to Hiatus’
  • ORF: ‘FCKW-Verbot kühlte die Atmosphäre’
  • Focus:‘ Umweltabkommen können Erderwärmung drosseln’
  • Der Spiegel: ‘Ozonschicht-Schutz soll Klimawandel-Pause erklären’
  • Tagesspiegel: ‘Gut für den Globus’
  • Deutschlandfunk Radio: ‘Gebremster Klimawandel?’

• VOX EU article with reference to Hendry and Pretis (2013):
  • ‘Data Mining’ with more variables than observations

General

• Der Falter (Austrian weekly-newspaper): Interview on what determines climate skepticism (Titled “Endlich Waermer”).
• CFAX Canadian Radio: Economic Impacts of Climate Change and 1.5C