DoomsdaysCW<p>Scientists just found a way to break through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateApathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateApathy</span></a></p><p>In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.</p><p>Kate Yoder <br>May 05, 2025 </p><p>Excerpt: "Liu worked with professors at Princeton to test how people responded to two different graphs. One showed winter temperatures of a fictional town gradually rising over time, while the other presented the same warming trend in a black-or-white manner: The lake either froze in any given year, or it didn’t. People who saw the second chart perceived <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> as causing more abrupt changes. </p><p>"Both charts represent the same amount of winter warming, just presented differently. 'We are not hoodwinking people,' said Rachit Dubey, a co-author of the study who’s now a professor of communications at the University of California, Los Angeles. 'We are literally showing them the same trend, just in different formats.' "</p><p>Read more / listen:<br><a href="https://grist.org/science/break-through-climate-apathy-data-visualization-lake-freezing-study/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grist.org/science/break-throug</span><span class="invisible">h-climate-apathy-data-visualization-lake-freezing-study/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DataVisualizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataVisualizations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateStripes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateStripes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateData</span></a></p>