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ArticleNature climate change2025

Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world.

Viktoria Cologna, Simona Meiler, Chahan M Kropf, Samuel Lüthi, Niels G Mede, David N Bresch, Oscar Lecuona, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, Cameron Brick and 7 more

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Article in Nature climate change, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Viktoria ColognaDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3706-8669
Simona MeilerDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4475-087X
Chahan M KropfDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3761-2292
Samuel LüthiInstitute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2884-3467
Niels G MedeDepartment of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5707-7568
David N BreschDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8431-4263
Oscar LecuonaDepartment of Psychobiology and Methodology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0080-1062
Sebastian BergerInstitute of Sociology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2392-1024
John BesleyDepartment of Advertising and Public Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8778-4973
Cameron BrickDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7174-8193
Marina JoubertCentre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-0178-1796
Edward W MaibachCentre for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3409-9187
Sabina MiheljCentre for Research in Communication and Culture, Department of Communication and Media, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8557-2504
Naomi OreskesDepartment of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA.
Mike S SchäferDepartment of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0847-7503
Sander van der LindenDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Yet, little is known about the relationship between exposure to extreme events, subjective attribution of these events to climate change, and climate policy support, especially in the Global South. Combining large-scale natural and social science data from 68 countries (

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AttributionClimate-change impactsClimate-change policyPsychology

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PMID40641510
PMCPMC12237696

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