Warming Strips and the Social Science of Climate Change

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April's Bulletin of the American Medeorolgical Society had a great article that gets to the heart of how to describe climate change. Climate change is not a natural sciences question - the science has long been understood. The issue is a social sciences question and how people's legitimate world views, view of the role of governement, and the bias toward wanting to believe there is a problem overwhelm our ability to earn the consensus necessary to properly address this important issue.. No Noble Prize will be awarded, the work is not groundbreaking; nevertheless, these graphs and pictures tell the compelling story of climate change.

Attached is my Youtube on this subject as well as the document itself

Citation: Hawkins, E., and Coauthors, 2025: Warming Stripes spark climate conversations: from the ocean to the stratosphere. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0212.1,