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Extreme weather news may not change climate change skeptics' minds

  • Written by Ryan Weber, Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama in Huntsville
How do people respond to media coverage of weather influenced by climate change?AP Photo/Andy Newman

The year 2018 brought particularly devastating natural disasters, including hurricanes, droughts, floods and fires – just the kinds of extreme weather events scientists predict will be exacerbated by climate change.

Amid this destruction, some...

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