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How to change people’s minds about climate change: what the science says

Telling people about the consensus among scientists can help, study finds, but researchers think that personal conversations are needed, too.
  1. Alix Soliman
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Telling people that scientists almost unanimously agree that human-caused climate change is happening can help to nudge their thinking in that direction. A study published last month in Nature Human Behaviour1, tested this ‘consensus message’ across 27 countries and found that the people least familiar with the message or who were sceptical of climate science were the most likely to change their perspective when presented with it.

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Nature 633, 502-503 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02777-9

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