A 43-Million-Person Investigation into Weather and Expressed Sentiment in a Changing Climate
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Author(s)
Wang, Jianghao
Obradovich, Nick
Zheng, Siqi
Date Issued
June 19, 2020
Journal
One Earth
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
Jianghao Wang, Nick Obradovich, Siqi Zheng, A 43-Million-Person Investigation into Weather and Expressed Sentiment in a Changing Climate, One Earth, Volume 2, Issue 6, 2020
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2020 The Authors Climate change poses a grave threat to humans. This study couples meteorological conditions with over 400 million geotagged social media posts across 43 million users in China to investigate how weather extremes influence individuals' expressed sentiment. We find that extreme weather worsens emotional expressions on social media. Females and individuals in poorer cities are more affected by extreme temperatures. Our findings highlight the potentially harmful impacts of climate change on future psychological well-being.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Real Estate
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ONEEAR.2020.05.016
