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In most cases of the twentieth century, winter brings annual events to Princeton, New Jersey. Carnegie lake is frosty, and the skater came to its glossy surface. Nowadays, the ice is rarely thick to support someone wearing a skate, since Princeton’s winter is warm 4 degrees Fahrenheit ঐ It is a lost tradition since 19701 that Grace Liu was associated with warm climate at Princeton University in 2021, interviewed long -term residents and excavated through newspaper archives to create a record of ice conditions in the lake.
“People must have noticed that they have been able to go to the low lake,” Liu says who has done a PhD now. Carnegie Mellon University student. “But they did not necessarily attach this trend to climate change.”
When the former magazine of the university features its research in the winter of 2021 Comment section Underneath the Moonlight was filled with skating -stained memories, to move the crowd forward to play hockey, and drink hot chocolate by frozen lakeside. Liu began to think: This type of direct, spectacular loss can make climate change more clear to humans?
This question spreads His studyRecently published in the Journal Nature Human behavior, it came to an interesting conclusion: Data Binary – It could help on a starch or it – to assist in it – can help Break apathy about climate changeThe
Liu Princeton’s professors worked with the fact that people respond to two separate graphs to examine. With a period of time gradually showed the winter temperature of a fictional city, the other presented the same warming in a black or white way: the lake becomes frosty in a certain year, or it has not happened. People who saw the second chart identified climate change as the cause of more sudden change.
Both charts represent the warming of the same amount of winter, just presented separately. “We are not hooding people,” the co-authors of the study now said, “We are not hooding people in Los Angeles.” “We literally show them the same trend, just in different formats.”
Strong response to the black-and-white presentation contained the truth above multiple experiments, even a trend line on the plot scattered at the temperature to clean the superintending super cleaning. To confirm the results translated into the larger world, researchers also found out how people reacted to the actual data of growth from the United States and Europe cities and got the same results. “The effects of psychology are sometimes playful,” said to study cognitive science for a decade. “This is one of the most clear effects we have seen” “
Searchs suggest that if scientists want to increase public emergency in the vicinity of climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of their slow dynamic trends. It may include the cancellation of the fiery smoke due to the loss of White Christmas or outdoor summer activities.
The metaphor of “boiling frog” is sometimes used to describe how people fail to react to slowly in climate. The idea is that if you put a frog in boiling water it will jump immediately. However, if you put it in the temperature of the room and slowly turn the heat, the frog does not understand the danger and will be alive. Although water is dangerously heated is the original frogs actually smart enough, although the metaphor fits with people in climate change: people are mentally adjusted at the temperature “Survey” survey “boring fast”. Previous research has shown that people are based on the weather that people are based on the weather that seem normal Past two to eight yearsA phenomenon known as “shifting baseline”.
Many scientists have expressed hope that if the effects of climate change, especially the destructive hurricanes, heat waves or floods, governments will finally work to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Last year, the weather -related disasters occurred More than 180 billion dollars in compensation In the United States, according to the National Ocean and atmospheric administration. Nevertheless, climate change still does not crack in their positions that Americans say that they are most concerned. Before the presidential election of 2021, a gallop survey found that climate change is at the bottom of the list 22 issueUnder the economy, terrorism or under healthcare.
“The tragedies will continue to grow in the background, but this is not happening quite fast enough to think, ‘Okay. We just need to stop what we are doing.” “” I think it is a bigger danger that we face climate change – it never happens The Problem. “
A graph about lake-fringing data will certainly not run climate change as their top issue. However, drowning feels that if people often see compulsory visuals, it can help prevent the climate change out of their minds. Subsequent surveys have shown that binary data has a cognitive reason for resonating with humans: it creates a mental illusion that the situation has suddenly changed, when it actually changed slowly.
According to Jennifer Marlon, a senior research scientist in the climate change communication, the importance of using data visualization is often overlooked to get ideas. “We know it [data visuals] There may be strong equipment for communication, but they often miss their mark, partially because most scientists are not trained, despite the availability of many great companies, “Marlon said in an email. He said that binary visuals could be used to explain the urgent climate change.
Studies search not only applies to frosty lakes – global temperature can be reported in a more perfect way. Popular “Climate Stripes” Visual Developed by Ed Hawkins, a professor at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, depicts the temperature change with the vertical bands on the line, where the blue cools indicates and indicates red warming. As the chart is switched from deep blue to deep red, it communicates the tendency to warn at a more visorior level. Stripes slowly facilitates the trend in the binary-style image that makes it easier to understand. “Our study explains that climate stripes are actually so popular and resonated with humans,” said Dubey.
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