Flood Experience Boosts Climate Change Acceptance

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People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change, according to a new study
By Lauren Morello and ClimateWire
March 21, 2011

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...acceptance

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Previous psychological research suggests that many people are relatively unconcerned about climate change because they perceive it as a distant issue that will not directly affect them.

But the authors of the new study, researchers at the University of Nottingham and Cardiff University, say their results suggest that drawing links between local weather events and climate change is "likely to be a useful strategy for increasing concern and action."

Their *analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/index.html

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The new study's findings, Weber added, "provide a glimmer of hope that similar 'tipping point' dynamics might exist in the domain of climate change."

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*Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience
A. Spence, W. Poortinga, C. Butler & N. F. Pidgeon
20 March 2011

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v...e1059.html

[RoyGBiv]

Unfortunately, if we wait until enough people have been directly affected enough to allow their perceptions to change, it will be far too late to do anything about it.

People are directly affected by it all the time. The snow storms we've experienced recently are a result of it, but because skeptics have "warming" in their heads, they see it differently. For many people to begin to see reality they'll have to be living on a coastline that is thoroughly submerged indefinitely.

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(03-22-2011 01:40 AM)RoyGBiv Wrote:  Unfortunately, if we wait until enough people have been directly affected enough to allow their perceptions to change, it will be far too late to do anything about it.

People are directly affected by it all the time. The snow storms we've experienced recently are a result of it, but because skeptics have "warming" in their heads, they see it differently. For many people to being to see reality they'll have to be living on a coastline that is thoroughly submerged indefinitely.

i absolutely agree with you!

"they'll have to be living on a coastline that is thoroughly submerged indefinitely." peak stupidity.

one thing about that, though: the frequency and intensity of that happening is rapidly increasing.
none good news.

thanks, RoyGBiv!

[Willinois]

I'm glad that's true in England. I wonder if it held true in Nashville or with Tennessee's two flat-earther Senators. I haven't seen the press be willing to make the connection between global warming and climate disasters and they usually dismiss those who do talk about it.

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(03-22-2011 03:13 PM)Willinois Wrote:  I'm glad that's true in England. I wonder if it held true in Nashville or with Tennessee's two flat-earther Senators. I haven't seen the press be willing to make the connection between global warming and climate disasters and they usually dismiss those who do talk about it.

i agree that it is unlikely it will happen there, Willinois; and that the press has been, is, criminally derelict in its duty to inform on this.

thanks!

[Cha]

(03-22-2011 03:13 PM)Willinois Wrote:  I'm glad that's true in England. I wonder if it held true in Nashville or with Tennessee's two flat-earther Senators. I haven't seen the press be willing to make the connection between global warming and climate disasters and they usually dismiss those who do talk about it.

It comes up in tv shows(that I watch on my laptop) of all places where the writers are definitely more in the know than punditheads with an agenda.

Last week on Bones somebody said this isn't Global Warming and the forensic anthropoligist said no because it's actually Global Climate Change. A lot of the shows I watch you can tell the writers don't buy into the bullshite hyped by US corporatemediawhores. Long live the progressive writers!

[There Is No Spoon]

Americans - leading the world in science - that most Americans neither understand or believe in.

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(03-22-2011 06:16 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote:  Americans - leading the world in science - that most Americans neither understand or believe in.

ah, is da crux, TINS. yes, !!

thanks!