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On March 9th 2022, postdoctoral fellow Ida Vikøren Andersen participates in a debate titled "CAPS LOCK!?!!!??", within the context of the recently ongoing climate festival "Varmere Våtere Villere" in Bergen.
Kjersti Fløttum held a presentation for Bergen Rotary Club to present results from a recent school survey.
Helge Drange was interviewed by the Norwegian Grandparents Climate Campaign (Besteforeldrenes klimaaksjon).
Ph.d. candidate Runa Falck held a presentation on "Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation: Comparing Politicians and Citizens" at the DIGSSCORE lunch seminar, 15th February 2022.
During this year's SDG Conference in Bergen, the LINGCLIM research group contributed with a session on "Voices on Lifestyle in a Climate Perspective" on "Day Zero" (9th February 2022).
Kjersti Fløttum held a presentation at the annual Teachers' Day at UiB 2022.
The LINGCLIM research group currently holds a two-days seminar at Solstrand Hotel, 20.-21. januar 2022, to discuss progress and further plans for the ongoing CLIMLIFE research project.
Kjersti Fløttum was cited in an article on "Oljeprodusenter i Golfen: Svarer på klimatrusselen med grønn retorikk – og økt oljeproduksjonen" (English: "Oil Producers in the Gulf: Responding to Climate Change with Green Rhetorics – and Increased Oil Production") in the Research Magazine Apollon.
Kjersti Fløttum and Øyvind Gjerstad were cited in a recent opinion article in The Guardian
Ida Vikøren Andersen was interviewed by the Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land.
On 16th December, Ida Vikøren Andersen, postdoctoral fellow in the CLIMLIFE research project, and Katherine Duarte, media researcher at UiB, published a debate article titled "Code Red for Climate Journalism" in the national newspaper Aftenposten.
On 19th November 2021, Kjersti Fløttum and Mike S. Schäfer presented their report on "The language of debate and communication about climate change" at the Royal Flemish Academy in Brussels.
On November 3rd, postdoctoral fellow Ida Vikøren Andersen participated in a panel debate on climate researchers' rhetorics, and media's role in the climate change debate. The panel debate was arranged by Bergen Global and was streamed on Zoom.
Three members of the LINGCLIM research group, Kjersti Fløttum, Ida Vikøren Andersen and Jana Paulina Scheurer, presented recent research findings at the interdisciplinary Beyond Oil conferance in Bergen, 20-21 October 2021.
On 21st September 2021, Kjersti Fløttum held a keynote speech at "Thinker's Cycle: The Language of Debate and Communication on Climate Change" at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in Brussels.
Kjersti Fløttum and Ida Vikøren Andersen held two presentations at the interdisciplinary seminar "Exit Earth – Extreme Weather Warnings" at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (UiB), 16th September 2021.
On 16th September 2021, PhD candidate Runa Falck participated in a panel debate at UiB's Bergen School of Global Studies, which has climate change as one of its five main pillars.
On Friday, 1st September, Amal Haddad Haddad, PhD-candidate at the Universidad de Granada, Spain, visited the LINGCLIM research group. In her research project, Haddad Haddad studies climate metaphors in Spanish and Arabic texts.

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