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'Boiling Frog' Effect Makes People Oblivious To Threat of Climate Crisis, Shows Study
An anonymous reader shares a report: Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events, including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, has not raised awareness of the threats posed by climate change. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal. This so-called "boiling f...
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania wondered if climate change could be made more obvious by presenting it in binary terms. Local newspaper archives describing ice skating on Lake Carnegie when it froze in winter inspired a simple experiment. The result, published in Nature, showed those who receiving the second graphic consistently saw climate change as more real and imminent.
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