Global perceptions of local temperature change

Research based on a survey across 89 countries demonstrates that individuals who live in places with rising average temperatures are more likely than others to perceive local warming. The study also suggests that personal experience of the impacts of climate change may shift public opinion about the reality of global warming.

[1]  Jon A. Krosnick,et al.  The Origins and Consequences of democratic citizens' Policy Agendas: A Study of Popular Concern about Global Warming , 2006 .

[2]  Anthony Leiserowitz,et al.  Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind, April 2013 , 2013 .

[3]  J. Palutikof,et al.  Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability , 2001 .

[4]  H. Osbahr,et al.  SUPPORTING AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION IN UGANDA TO RESPOND TO CLIMATE RISK: LINKING CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY WITH FARMER PERCEPTIONS , 2011, Experimental Agriculture.

[5]  S. Solomon.  IPCC (2007): Climate Change The Physical Science Basis , 2007 .

[6]  S. Rahmstorf,et al.  Increase of extreme events in a warming world , 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[7]  J. Joireman,et al.  Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes and anchoring on belief in global warming , 2010 .

[8]  R. Hitchings,et al.  Coping with the immediate experience of climate: regional variations and indoor trajectories , 2011 .

[9]  Elsevier Ltd.  'Strange changes': indigenous perspectives of climate change and adaptation in NE Arnhem Land (Australia) , 2010 .

[10]  P. Egan,et al.  Turning Personal Experience into Political Attitudes: The Effect of Local Weather on Americans’ Perceptions about Global Warming , 2012 .

[11]  A common-sense climate index: is climate changing noticeably? , 1998, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[12]  Andrei Marin,et al.  Riders under storms: Contributions of nomadic herders’ observations to analysing climate change in Mongolia , 2010 .

[13]  M. Rebetez,et al.  Public expectation as an element of human perception of climate change , 1996 .

[14]  Gerardo Chowell,et al.  Scales of perception: public awareness of regional and neighborhood climates , 2012, Climatic Change.

[15]  Clayton R. Critcher,et al.  Visceral fit: While in a visceral state, associated states of the world seem more likely. , 2011, Journal of personality and social psychology.

[16]  Roger G. Barry,et al.  Changes in weather persistence: Insight from Inuit knowledge , 2010 .

[17]  K. Trenberth.  Framing the way to relate climate extremes to climate change , 2012, Climatic Change.

[18]  T. D. Mitchell,et al.  An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high‐resolution grids , 2005 .

[19]  Nicholas Frank Pidgeon,et al.  Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience , 2011 .

[20]  Jennifer Phillips,et al.  Communication and Mental Processes: Experimental and Analytic Processing of Uncertain Climate Information , 2007 .

[21]  M. Cane,et al.  Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Niño on Pleiades visibility , 2000, Nature.

[22]  Eric J. Johnson,et al.  Local Warming , 2011, Psychological science.

[23]  E. Weber.  Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet) , 2006 .

[24]  M. Bindi,et al.  European winegrowers’ perceptions of climate change impact and options for adaptation , 2009 .

[25]  J. E. Dobson,et al.  LandScan: A Global Population Database for Estimating Populations at Risk , 2000 .

[26]  Corinne Le Quéré,et al.  Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis , 2013 .

[27]  Claudia Ringler,et al.  Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia , 2009 .

[28]  Carla Roncoli,et al.  Indigenous climate knowledge in southern Uganda: the multiple components of a dynamic regional system , 2010 .

[29]  E. L. Chavero,et al.  Indigenous perception of changes in climate variability and its relationship with agriculture in a Zoque community of Chiapas, Mexico , 2011 .

[30]  Suraje Dessai,et al.  Unstable climates: Exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate , 2009 .