Abstract
Pictures often tell a story better than the proverbial 1,000 words. However, in connection with climate change, many pictures can be highly misleading, for example, when a snowball is used to ridicule the notion of global warming or when a picture of a dead crop is supposed to alert people to climate change. We differentiate between such inappropriate pictures and those that can be used legitimately because they capture long-term trends. For example, photos of a glacier's retreat are legitimate indicators of the long-term mass balance loss that is observed for the vast majority of glaciers around the world.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e2006004 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | PLoS Biology |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 9 Oct 2018 |
Structured keywords
- Memory
- TeDCog
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