• The study showed that tweets during extreme weather conditions such as heat waves were more negative than during relatively normal weather
A new study by Kelton Minor, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, suggests that even 'depressive' weather can influence tweets that are shared on the micro-blogging platform Twitter. Bad weather, or weather without sunshine and frequent rains, is often seen affecting people's mood and productivity. Now it turns out that bad weather also affects the tone and vibes of the tweets posted.
The study is also a warning sign of how climate change not only threatens survival, but also the mental health of many before it affects survival.
In their work, Minor studied the textual content of 7.7 billion tweets from 190 countries and more than 43,000 unique counties between 2015 and 2021. place.
The study showed that tweets made during extreme weather conditions were more negative than during normal weather. It combined nearly 8 billion tweets from each country with data for the 2015–21 season.
It found that tweets during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave in North America and extreme precipitation during the same period in Western Europe increased negative sentiment "and far more than the historical average heatwave and extreme precipitation impacts seen between 2015 and 2020". Quantitatively reduced positive emotion."
"Climate change is increasing heat and precipitation extremes that span across county, regional and country boundaries, creating diverse risks to mental health on a planetary scale," the study said.
To accurately detect emotion, the study used an online tool called the Linguistic Inquiry and word count.
The report is an addition to a previous study on climate change and its negative impact on mental health.
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