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Nicholas Kristof: Climate change’s overlooked impacts on daily life

Rising global temperatures are quietly affecting human health, education, and behavior, not just fueling apocalyptic scenarios.

Nicholas Kristof writes for The New York Times.

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Impacts

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Why cheetahs will be especially vulnerable to climate change, according to new research

Even the fastest animal in the world can't outrun the effects of climate change, according to experts.

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What makes people act on climate change, according to behavioral science

To get people to shift to more climate-friendly behavior, what works best? Education? Payments? Peer pressure?

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What coaxes greener habits: Facts, money, or social signals?

A wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of over 400 studies set out to find the most effective interventions. Spoiler: It isn’t facts.

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Robert Clark: Lessons from evolutionary psychology

Some of the response to climate change concerns seems driven by emotion more than by reason, and especially to be driven by tribalism. It would be unbearably humiliating if those insufferable, Woke, politically correct leftists were actually right about something.

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