by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jun 18, 2019
Living through extreme weather events can shape people’s beliefs about climate change: people often express more concern about climate change in the aftermath of heat waves, hurricanes, and floods. But as Elizabeth Albright of Duke University and Deserai Crow of the... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jun 11, 2019
Computerized climate models that project how greenhouse gas emissions will lead to climate warming are pretty blunt instruments when it comes to human behavior. They tend to assume a static emissions “pathway,” but in reality, the behavior underlying emissions is... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Jun 4, 2019
Many everyday products are recyclable, but very little waste actually gets recycled. Only 13% of municipal solid waste is recycled globally, and only about one-quarter in the United States. Part of the problem is that people put things in the trash that could go in... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | May 28, 2019
Over the past few years there’s been lots of debate over the best way to communicate about climate change. Will doom-and-gloom messages scare people into action, or cause them to give up? Will emphasizing hope put people in a can-do frame of mind, or reduce their... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | May 21, 2019
It’s well established that warmer temperatures and more carbon dioxide in the air can make trees grow faster. Scientists have incorporated these relationships into climate models, positing that faster growing trees will result in more carbon stored in forests, helping... 
