Key Points
When it comes to climate change, people tend to be classified in a strictly binary way: you are either a climate believer or a climate denier..
Most people now fall into the alarmed and concerned groups, believes Hayhoe, and they face challenges in communicating the urgency of tackling climate change to people in other groups, even when they are close friends and family...
As an atmospheric scientist, Hayhoe is a great advocate of putting the evidence at the forefront of conversations on climate change..
Its a phenomenon Hayhoe refers to as global weirding and people everywhere are becoming more aware of unusual and unnatural weather events and their frequently devastating consequences...
For many people, the scale of the challenge in tackling climate change leads us to question what difference we can possibly make as individuals..
