Worrying about Climate Change

Worrying about climate change: is it responsible to promote public debate?

Some fear that provoking widespread worry about climate change may harm mental health. The Regional Wellbeing Survey, a large study of health, well-being and life in rural and regional Australia, examined climate change worry and attitudes. Most respondents were worried about climate change and agreed that fossil fuel use causes global warming, but there was no evidence to suggest that worry ab...

Climate change. A worrying trend of less ice, higher seas.

Worrying about normality

hypothesis being tested with the WMW test is not easily described; conventional interpretation (including examples provided by statistical packages) would have it that the null hypothesis is one of equal group medians, but such is not the case; rather it is a test for equality of group mean ranks. Because the WMW test is a test of both location and shape, its interpretation as a test of medians...

Worrying about weird winters

Winter is a key determinant of biological processes in temperate, alpine, and polar environments. Winters are changing, yet we currently lack the knowledge to adequately predict the impacts of climate change on winter biology, or to link winter conditions to the growing-season performance of most organisms.

Worrying About the Future

Previous research has demonstrated that an episodic specificity induction—brief training in recollecting details of a recent experience—enhances performance on various subsequent tasks thought to draw upon episodic memory processes. Existing work has also shown that mental simulation can be beneficial for emotion regulation and coping with stressors. Here we focus on understanding how episodic ...