Proximity to Coast Is Linked to Climate Change Belief

Proximity to Coast Is Linked to Climate Change Belief

Psychologists have examined the many psychological barriers to both climate change belief and concern. One barrier is the belief that climate change is too uncertain, and likely to happen in distant places and times, to people unlike oneself. Related to this perceived psychological distance of climate change, studies have shown that direct experience of the effects of climate change increases c...

Leaf morphology shift is not linked to climate change.

Leaf morphology shift linked to climate change.

Climate change is driving adaptive shifts within species, but research on plants has been focused on phenology. Leaf morphology has demonstrated links with climate and varies within species along climate gradients. We predicted that, given within-species variation along a climate gradient, a morphological shift should have occurred over time due to climate change. We tested this prediction, tak...

Introduction to Belief Change

Maurice Pagnucco joined Macquarie University as a lecturer in Computing in 1998. Prior to that he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Sydney and at the University of New South Wales. He completed his doctoral studies in Computer Science at the University of Sydney in early 1996 on the role of abductive reasoning within the process of belief revision. He also undertook his undergrad...

Letter to Editor: Climate Change and Waterborne Diseases