Previous studies highlighted that individuals who have experienced calamities like hurricanes, catastrophic flooding or others are more likely to be concerned about climate change. However, a new study added that not all severe weather impacts carry the same effect.The study was published in the journal 'Climate Change'."How our community or neighbourhood fares, the damages it suffers, may have a stronger and more lasting effect on our climate beliefs than individual impacts do," said Elizabeth A. Albright, Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment."We found that damage at the zip-code level as measured by FEMA was positively associated with stronger climate change beliefs even three or four years after the extreme flooding event our study examined," Albright said.People who perceived that large-scale damage was done were more likely to believe climate change as a problem causing harm, she explained.In contrast, individual losses such as damage to one's own house appeared to have a ...
