Climate change

WhoWhatWhy - A new study published in Climatic Change shows that 83 percent of Americans have some confidence in attributing at least one type of extreme weather to climate change. However, the public’s views varied among hazards and didn’t always line up with scientists’ confidence. The results point out some important considerations for climate scientists looking to communicate their work to the public. The results are “encouraging,” said Charles Ogunbode, a psychologist at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the new study. “The value of scientific contribution really lives or dies by how well it matches with public perception. And from the look of it, public [perception] is keeping up.”