A study of over two billion tweets reveals how fast people are to normalize extreme weather.
On 2/26/19 at 7:07 AMMankind is so quick to normalize extreme weather in the face of climate change we have become like the proverbial frog slowly boiling alive in a pot of water, scientists have warned.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have now found people appear to have very short memories in terms of what they consider “normal” weather, with events they once perceived as remarkable and out of the ordinary becoming old news in the space of just two to eight years., the team looked at over two billion posts shared on Twitter relating to the weather.
The scientists, led by Frances C Moore from the university’s Department of Environmental Science and Policy, say unusual weather compared to pre-industrial conditions “constitute direct evidence of anthropogenic climate change.” However, as unusual weather becomes normal, people are no longer able to recognize it as a symptom of climate change.
The tweets were generated between March 2014 and November 2016. During this time, the U.S. saw polar vortexes, a catastrophic hurricane season and one of the worst droughts on record.
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