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Communicating climate change: Focus on the framing, not just the facts

  • Written by Rose Hendricks, Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
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Humans are currently in a war against global warming. Or is it a race against global warming? Or maybe it’s just a problem we have to deal with?

If you already consider climate change a pressing issue, you might not think carefully about the way you talk about it...

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