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Climate change: why is there still a gap between public opinion and scientific consensus, and how can we close it?

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par Manel Poch Espallargas, Catedrático de Ingeniería Química, Universitat de Girona
Gonzalo Delacámara Andrés, Director del IE Centre for Water & Climate Adaptation, IE University

As children, many of us played the “telephone” game – a message is whispered from one person to the next, invariably getting distorted as it passes along the line. In this game, people’s perception and understanding matters more than the original message, but as the US Secretary of Defence James Schlesinger said in 1975, “everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts”.

Today, this statement applies to climate change. While there is broad…

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