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ArticleBioscience2026

A Psychological and Linguistic Analysis of "The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth".

David M Markowitz, Scott Slovic, Paul Slovic

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Article in Bioscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

David M MarkowitzDepartment of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United state of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7159-7014
Scott SlovicOregon Research Institute, Springfield, United state of America.
Paul SlovicOregon Research Institute, Springfield, United state of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7473-6403

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A traditional goal of science and environmental communication, including climate communication, has been to encourage disinterested or uninformed audiences to pay more attention to the world around them and to shift disinterest and apathy toward positive engagement with nature and proenvironment lifestyles. We conducted an empirical investigation of audience responses to key aspects of the world scientists' "2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth," focusing on whether the language of this article manages to sway readers to rethink their attitudes toward climate change. Across many variations, the textual prompts we gave to readers did

Indexed as

Alliance of World Scientistsclimate changeclimate communicationenvironmental rhetoricscience communication

Identifiers

PMID41623710
PMCPMC12856200

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