Is Twitter Indicating a Change in MP’s Views on Climate Change?

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

Found your paper extremely interesting and well-written. Your research questions are clear, your methods and methodology for answering them adequate, and your results clearly presented. 

Please note that I have attached a PDF of your manuscript with minor comments. 

In terms of moderate revisions, these focus mainly on section 4.1. Details can be seen in the attached manuscript. 

Best of luck with your revisions. 

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Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Many thanks for your kind words and constructive feedback.  

Please see the attached cover letter addressing both your comments and those of the second reviewer.

I hope you find these to your satisfaction.

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Reviewer 2 Report

1.  Those outside the UK may not realize that MP stands for member of parliament.  Please note this in the abstract and text.

 

2.  Could you say a little more about the McCombs et.al model on p.3?  Why, for example, does personal input go down on the journey to create an alternative stability?

 

3.  Twitter is an ideal platform to respond to transient events.  It is not surprising, therefore, that the Thunberg address was the most significant focus of MP twitter chatter.  Whether such transient events have a lasting consequence, furthering the policy agenda, is another matter.  You raise this issue in the paper, but you might expand upon it.  For example, do you feel that Johnson's "green new deal" announcement in mid-November was in any way prompted by the response on twitter (thereby promoting policy formulation)--even though Conservatives, such as Johnson, were not the most vocal twitter respondents.  Would his policy response, limited as it may be, have been non-existent without the twitter outburst?

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Many thanks for your time in reviewing our work and constructive comments.

Please find attached our cover letter highlighting the changes we've made to address both your comments and those of the other reviewer.

I hope these are to your satisfaction.

Many thanks and kind regards,

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf