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Why 'Sharknado 4' matters: Do climate disaster movies hurt the climate cause?

  • Written by Lauren Griffin, Adjunct Associate of Sociology, University of Florida
imageDisaster movies can raise environmental concerns but also seed misinformation.Disaster via www.shutterstock.com

Given that 2016 is expected to be the hottest year on record, with several months that not only surpassed old heat records but did so by increasingly large margins, it stands to reason climate change should be an issue we as a nation are...

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