When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused ...

It is now a ubiquitous cultural ritual to blame any and every weather event on climate change. Those hot days? Climate change. That hurricane? Climate change. The flood somewhere that I saw on social ...

In my August blog post, I explained climate change denial as a result of motivated inference, in which people's beliefs are biased by their goals. I still think this is a good explanation of why some ...

Digitally generated post apocalyptic scene depicting a desolate urban landscape with buildings in ruins and cloudy sky. The scene was rendered with photorealistic shaders and lighting in UE4 (Unreal ...

Few people are aware of the fact that “climate change” means very different things in science and in policy. That difference exposes the fundamental incoherence of climate policy, highlighted by the ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views of climate change, the environment and related topics. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and ...

A glimmer of truth seeped out through the pages of The New York Times (NYT) recently, in a story examining how “unprepared” large parts of the nation are in the face of natural disasters. Although it ...

As children, many of us played the “telephone” game – a message is whispered from one person to the next, invariably getting distorted as it passes along the line. In this game, people’s perception ...

People wade through a flooded market in South Sudan in 2024. Heavy rains over several years have contributed to a widespread humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. People affected by the negative effects ...