Emerging research on "psychological proximity" and climate change appears to be identifying relationships of physical and temporal distance of human thinkers to climate change effects with more or less acceptance of the reality of global warming and interest in addressing the problem. In a variation on that theme, this week's article by Dannenberg and Zitzelberger Climate experts’ views on geoengineering depend on their beliefs about climate change impacts appears to reveal an intriguing feature of expert thinking on geoengineering:
We find that respondents who expect severe global climate change damages and who have little confidence in current mitigation efforts are more opposed to geoengineering than respondents who are less pessimistic about global damages and mitigation efforts. However, we also find that respondents are more supportive of geoengineering when they expect severe climate change damages in their home country than when they have more optimistic expectations for the home country. Thus, when respondents are more personally affected, their views are closer to what rational cost–benefit analyses predict.
Biological effects of global warming
Shortened temperature?relevant period of spring leaf?out in temperate?zone trees
Diverging phenological responses of Arctic seabirds to an earlier spring
How Eddy Covariance Flux Measurements Have Contributed to Our Understanding of Global Change Biology
Nearshore coral growth declining on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world
Divergent shifts in peak photosynthesis timing of temperate and alpine grasslands in China
Refugia under threat: Mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high?latitude eastern Australia
Nitrogen limitation inhibits marine diatom adaptation to high temperatures
A global ‘greening’ of coastal dunes: An integrated consequence of climate change?
Humans deal with our global warming
Tracing country commitment to Indigenous peoples in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate change impact and vulnerability assessment of Mumbai city, India
Social cohesion and passive adaptation in relation to climate change and disease
Could Bitcoin emissions push global warming above 2 °C?
Implausible projections overestimate near-term Bitcoin CO2 emissions
Climate change impacts on banana yields around the world
Climate experts’ views on geoengineering depend on their beliefs about climate change impacts
Physical science of global warming
The Mid?Summer Drought over Mexico and Central America in the 21st Century
Greenhouse gas flux from stormwater ponds in southeastern Virginia (USA)
A canary in the Southern Ocean
Enhanced oceanic CO2 uptake along the rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
The Carbon Balance of the Southeastern U.S. Forest Sector as Driven by Recent Disturbance Trends
Constraining Climate Model Projections of Regional Precipitation Change
Temperature-driven rise in extreme sub-hourly rainfall
A significant bias of Tmax and Tmin average temperature and its trend
Causes for the Century-Long Decline in Colorado River Flow
Climate change study for the meteorological variables in the Barak River basin in North-East India
Snow and Climate: Feedbacks, Drivers, and Indices of Change
Stabilization of dense Antarctic water supply to the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation
Modeling of global warming
A Systematic Approach to Assessing the Sources and Global Impacts of Errors in Climate Models
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Posted by Doug Bostrom on Tuesday, 3 September, 2019
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