At worst, it detracts from the real fight, and makes the couple hundred thousand people, who may be important decision-makers and are at least voters, feel like they've checked the climate change box and don't, for example, need to vote for politicians who support climate policy.
Yvo de Boer who was the UN climate chief during the conference, says Copenhagen needed to be seen as a reality check for the climate change process.
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For more on the psychology of climate change, check out Lisa Bennett's Greater Good article, "The Hot Spot". For more on the public trust in scientists, check out this Greater Good interview with Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.
To see the relationship between extreme weather and public attitudes on human-driven climate change, check out the latest report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication — "Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind April 2013".
To discover more about how people from other countries in Asia are experiencing climate change, check out our Data Portal where you can find further data from our Climate Asia series.
Could your office help me check the calculations?" But climate change is serious for Virginia.
To get even more news and information about the consequences and solutions to climate change, check out this annotated resource list I've compiled, "Climate Change News Resources," at Wordpress.com here.
To find even more news about the consequences and solutions to climate change, check out this annotated resource list I've compiled, "Climate Change News Resources," at Wordpress.com here.
