Thanks for the great conversation with @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social! Our colleague Linda Steg (also an IPCC author) found that psychological distance is lower than we think: most people actually perceive #climatechange as occurring now and close by.
It is widely assumed that perceiving climate change as psychologically distant is
a major barrier to climate action. Based on a review of public opinion polls and published
articles, we show that ther...
