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Yapay Zekâ Destekli İklim Değişikliği İletişimi: ClimateGPT'nin Rolü

Year 2025, Issue: Special Issue of the 1st Environment and Communication: Climate Change and Sustainability Symposium, 93 - 108, 30.04.2025

İlknur Zeydan

https://doi.org/10.17680/erciyesiletisim.1580090

Abstract

İklim değişikliği insanlığın karşı karşıya olduğu en önemli çevre sorunlarından biridir. İklim değişikliğiyle
mücadele edebilmek için öncelikle iklim değişikliği kavramını doğru anlamak, olumsuz etkilerini ve
çözüm yöntemlerini bilmek gerekmektedir. Ne yazık ki bilim insanları ile toplum arasında iklim değişikliği
iletişiminde bir sorun bulunmaktadır. Yapay zekâ bu sorunun üstesinden gelebilir. Yapay zekanın iklimle
ilgili iletişimde kullanılması iletişimin etkinliğinin artmasına katkı sağlamaktadır. Bu çalışma iklim
değişikliğinin temel kavramlarını Yapay zekâ yardımıyla topluma ve öğrencilere anlatmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla Erasmus AI firması tarafından geliştirilen bir yapay zekâ aracı olan ClimateGPT kullanılmıştır. ClimateGPT, iklim değişikliği, sera etkisi ve sera gazları, iklim değişikliğinin etkileri, azaltım ve uyum önlemleri ve son olarak iklim iletişimi konularında bir dizi soruyu yanıtladı. Çalışmanın sonucunda, ClimateGPT’nin herkesin anlayabileceği, büyük ölçüde doğru ve net cevaplar ürettiği görülmüştür. YZ tarafından üretilen bilgiler toplumu iklim değişikliği konusunda eğitmek için kullanılabilir. Bu nedenle bu çalışma Birleşmiş Milletler Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Hedeflerinden 13 numaralı İklim Eylemi’ne katkıda bulunmaktadır.

Keywords

Yapay Zekâ İklim Değişikliği ClimateGPT İletişim.

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  • Vaghefi, S. A., Stammbach, D., Muccione, V., Bingler, J., Ni, J., Kraus, M., Allen, S., Colesanti-Senni, C., Wekhof, T., Schimanski, T., Gostlow, G., Yu, T., Wang, Q., Webersinke, N., Huggel, C., & Leippold, M. (2023). ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 480. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01084-x
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  • Zeydan, İ. (2024a). Pazarlamada Yapay Zeka Üzerine Yapılan Çalışmaların İçerik Analizi. Karaelmas Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2/1(June), 1–11.
  • Zeydan, İ. (2024b). Yapay zekâ-pazarlama entegrasyonu: örnek uygulamalar. International Journal of Management Economics and Business, 20(ICMEB’24 Special Issue), 423–446. https://doi.org/10.17130/ijmeb.1486507
  • Zeydan, Ö., Sunar, B., & Danır, Z. (2017). Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change vulnerabilities of certain European countries. Journal of Young Scientist, 5, 121–128. http://journalofyoungscientist.usamv.ro/index.php/scientific-papers/current?id=516
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Artificial Intelligence Enabled Climate Change Communication: The Role of ClimateGPT

Year 2025, Issue: Special Issue of the 1st Environment and Communication: Climate Change and Sustainability Symposium, 93 - 108, 30.04.2025

İlknur Zeydan

https://doi.org/10.17680/erciyesiletisim.1580090

Abstract

Climate change is one of the most important environmental problems humanity faces. To combat climate change, it is necessary first to understand the concept of climate change correctly and to know its negative effects and solution methods. Unfortunately, there is a problem in climate change communication between scientists and the public. Artificial intelligence (AI) can overcome this problem. The use of artificial intelligence in climate-related communication contributes to the increase in the effectiveness of communication. This study aims to explain the basic concepts of climate change to the public and students with the help of AI. For this purpose, ClimateGPT, an AI tool developed by Erasmus AI company, was used. ClimateGPT answered a series of questions about climate change, greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, climate change effects, mitigation and adaptation measures, and finally climate communication. As a result of the study, ClimateGPT has been shown to produce mostly accurate and clear answers that everyone can understand. The AI-generated information can be used to educate the public about climate change. Therefore, this study contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 13: Climate Action.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence Climate Change ClimateGPT Communication.

References

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  • Cook, B. R., & Overpeck, J. T. (2019). Relationship-building between climate scientists and publics as an alternative to information transfer. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.570
  • Cowls, J., Tsamados, A., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L. (2023). The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations. AI and Society, 38(1), 283–307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01294-x
  • Daugaard, D., Kent, D., Servátka, M., & Zhang, L. (2024). Optimistic framing increases responsible investment of investment professionals. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50965-w
  • Debnath, R., Creutzig, F., Sovacool, B. K., & Shuckburgh, E. (2023). Harnessing human and machine intelligence for planetary-level climate action. Npj Climate Action, 2(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-023-00056-3
  • Duram, L. A. (2021). Teaching a social science course on climate change : Suggestions for active learning. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(8), E1494–E1498. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0035.1
  • Glavinskas, V. (2023). We asked ChatGPT about climate change — it left a lot out. https://www.edf.org/article/we-asked-chatgpt-about-climate-change-it-left-lot-out
  • Griffiths, A. (2023). Raising Issues OK computer ? Using artificial intelligence for teaching and learning about climate change. Teaching Geography, 48(2), 2023.
  • Hancock, J. T., Naaman, M., & Levy, K. (2020). AI-Mediated Communication: Definition, Research Agenda, and Ethical Considerations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 25(1), 89–100. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmz022
  • He, K., Member, R. M., Lin, Q., & Ruan, Y. (2021). A Survey of Large Language Models for Healthcare : from Data , Technology , and Applications to Accountability and Ethics. 14(8), 1–32.
  • Hwang, I. C., Tol, R. S. J., & Hofkes, M. W. (2019). Active Learning and Optimal Climate Policy. Environmental and Resource Economics, 73(4), 1237–1264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-018-0297-x
  • İşler, B., & Kılıç, M. Y. (2021). Eğitimde Yapay Zekâ Kullanımı ve Gelişimi. Yeni Medya Elektronik Dergi, 5(1), 1–11.
  • Keleş, O., & Deniz, N. D. (2024). A comparative study with human data: Do LLMs have superficial language processing? 32nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2024 - Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/SIU61531.2024.10600807
  • Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Rui Mucova, S. A., Nagy, G. J., Balogun, A.-L., Luetz, J. M., Ng, A. W., Kovaleva, M., Safiul Azam, F. M., Alves, F., Guevara, Z., Matandirotya, N. R., Skouloudis, A., Tzachor, A., Malakar, K., & Gandhi, O. (2022). Deploying artificial intelligence for climate change adaptation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 180, 121662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121662
  • Lee, B. Y., Pavilonis, B., John, D. C., Heneghan, J., Bartsch, S. M., & Kavouras, I. (2024). The Need to Focus More on Climate Change Communication and Incorporate More Systems Approaches. Journal of Health Communication, 29, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2361566
  • Liu, Y., Saleh, S., & Huang, J. (2021). Artificial Intelligence in Promoting Teaching and Learning Transformation in Schools. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 15(3), 891–902. https://doi.org/10.53333/ijicc2013/15369
  • Luccioni, A., Schmidt, V., Vardanyan, V., & Bengio, Y. (2021). Using Artificial Intelligence to Visualize the Impacts of Climate Change. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 41(1), 8–14. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2020.3025425
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  • Ramya, Verma, R., & Singh, R. K. (2024). The role of artificial intelligence in climate change visualization. Idealistic Journal of Advanced Research in Progressive Spectrums, 3(4), 48–54.
  • Rane, N., Choudhary, S., & Rane, J. (2024). Contribution of ChatGPT and Similar Generative Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Climate Change Mitigation Strategies. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4681720
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  • Sullivan, Y., & Fosso Wamba, S. (2024). Artificial intelligence and adaptive response to market changes: A strategy to enhance firm performance and innovation. Journal of Business Research, 174(March 2022), 114500. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114500
  • Thulke, D., Gao, Y., Pelser, P., Brune, R., Jalota, R., Fok, F., Ramos, M., van Wyk, I., Nasir, A., Goldstein, H., Tragemann, T., Nguyen, K., Fowler, A., Stanco, A., Gabriel, J., Taylor, J., Moro, D., Tsymbalov, E., de Waal, J., … Erasmus, D. (2024). ClimateGPT: Towards AI Synthesizing Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change. 1–52. http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09646
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  • Vaghefi, S. A., Stammbach, D., Muccione, V., Bingler, J., Ni, J., Kraus, M., Allen, S., Colesanti-Senni, C., Wekhof, T., Schimanski, T., Gostlow, G., Yu, T., Wang, Q., Webersinke, N., Huggel, C., & Leippold, M. (2023). ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 480. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01084-x
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  • Zeydan, Ö., Sunar, B., & Danır, Z. (2017). Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change vulnerabilities of certain European countries. Journal of Young Scientist, 5, 121–128. http://journalofyoungscientist.usamv.ro/index.php/scientific-papers/current?id=516
  • Zhang, B., & Soh, H. (2023). Large Language Models as Zero-Shot Human Models for Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 7961–7968. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341488
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Publication Date April 30, 2025
Submission Date November 6, 2024
Acceptance Date February 27, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Issue: Special Issue of the 1st Environment and Communication: Climate Change and Sustainability Symposium

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APA Zeydan, İ. (2025). Artificial Intelligence Enabled Climate Change Communication: The Role of ClimateGPT. Erciyes İletişim Dergisi(Special Issue of the 1st Environment and Communication: Climate Change and Sustainability Symposium), 93-108. https://doi.org/10.17680/erciyesiletisim.1580090
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