Sisco, Matthew R.; Bosetti, Valentina; Weber, Elke U. - 2016
We analyzed the effects of 10,748 weather events on attention to climate change between December 2011 and November 2014 … events began, compared to directly before. This suggests that actual experiences with extreme weather events are driving the … increases in attention to climate change, beyond the purely descriptive information provided by the weather forecasts directly …