Your Local Climate Influences Your Views of Global Warming

Brett Pelham
4 min readApr 5, 2020

Why trust thousands of careful scientific observations when you can just ask yourself if it’s hot where you live?

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About 97% of climate scientists agree that human carbon emissions are changing our planet’s climate. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, scientific consensus on climate change is comparable to the scientific consensus that smoking causes…

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Brett Pelham

Brett is a social psychologist at Montgomery College, MD. Brett studies health, gender, culture, religion, identity, and stereotypes.