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Tag: extreme weather events

  • Mud, monsters and solidarity: Social representations of the 2024 Valencia floods

    Mud, monsters and solidarity: Social representations of the 2024 Valencia floods

    Last week I wrote a post about the 2025 California wildfires. This week’s post is about the 2024 Valencia floods. These are just two examples of increasingly frequent extreme weather events that affect people around the word. They also affect the language we speak, especially the metaphors we use to make sense of such events.…

  • Extreme event/weather communication

    Extreme event/weather communication

    Communication sciences span a large array of fields and issues. We have science communication, risk communication, crisis communication, health communication, and, of course climate change communication. Over the last few years, it has become clear to me that when it comes to climate and weather, all these communication efforts converge and become part of what…