Seeking Common Ground: An Exploration of Conflicting Views on Climate Change in Saskatchewan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the province of Saskatchewan, political rhetoric and deep economic dependency on non-renewable resources have contributed to a divided public opinion of both the presence and urgency of climate change. This clash of opposing views and beliefs on climate change has fostered an us-versus-them mentality that obfuscates efforts to effectively communicate both the impacts of climate change and the potential solutions. Narratives advanced by environmentally conscious individuals and organizations in Saskatchewan often fail to resonate across the ideological divide, which limits the efficacy of cultivating pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours across the province. To foster a shared pro-environmental outcome, new ways of thinking are needed to bridge the diverse meanings, experiences, and contexts that shape how people understand and respond to climate change. This study explores the potential for common ground among Saskatchewan people who hold conflicting views and beliefs about climate change and considers how this could support both the reduction of polarization and the creation of equitable pathways for meaningful climate action, in ways that honour a multitude of lived experiences. Central findings reveal tensions in how participants perceive climate challenges and possible responses. However, the presence of underlying shared values—such as sense of place, a desire for personal and economic wellbeing, and strong family and community ties—suggests meaningful opportunities to strategically frame climate change communication in ways that bridge divides and encourage transformative collective action in the land of the living skies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".