Global perceptions of local temperature change

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Spence, A., Poortinga, W., Butler, C. & Pidgeon, N. F. Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience. Nature Clim. Change 1, 46–49 (2011).

Deressa, T. T., Hassan, R. M., Ringler, C., Alemu, T. & Yesuf, M. Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. Glob. Environ. Change 19, 248–255 (2009).

Orlove, B., Roncoli, C., Kabugo, M. & Majugu, A. Indigenous climate knowledge in southern Uganda: The multiple components of a dynamic regional system. Climatic Change 100, 243–265 (2010).

Osbahr, H, Dorward, P., Stern, R. & Cooper, S. Supporting agricultural innovation in Uganda to respond to climate risk: Linking climate change and variability with farmer perceptions. Exp. Agric. 47, 293–316 (2011).

Joireman, J., Barnes Truelove, H. & Duell, B. Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes and anchoring on belief in global warming. J. Environ. Psychol. 30, 358–367 (2010).

Li, Y., Johnson, E. J. & Zaval, L. Local warming: Daily variation in temperature affects beliefs and concern about climate change. Psychol. Sci. 22, 454–459 (2011).

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Trenberth, K. Framing the way to relate climate extremes to climate change. Climatic Change 115, 283–290 (2012).

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Risen, J. L. & Critcher, C. R. Visceral fit: While in a visceral state, associated states of the world seem more likely. J. Personal. Soc. Psychol. 100, 777–793 (2011).

Krosnick, J. A., Holbrook, A. L., Lowe, L. & Visser, P. S. The origins and consequences of democratic citizens’ policy agendas: A study of popular concern about global warming. Climatic Change 77, 7–43 (2006).

Hitchings, R. Coping with the immediate experience of climate: Regional variations and indoor trajectories. WIRes Clim. Change 2, 170–184 (2011).

Hulme, M., Dessai, S., Lorenzoni, I. & Nelson, D. R. Unstable climates: Exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate. Geoforum 40, 197–206 (2009).

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Strauss, S. & Orlove, B. S. Weather, Climate, Culture (Berg, 2003).

Sánchez-Cortés, M. S. & Chavero, E. L. Indigenous perception of changes in climate variability and its relationship with agriculture in a Zoque community of Chiapas, Mexico. Climatic Change 107, 363–389 (2011).

Petheram, L., Zander, K. K., Campbell, B. M., High, C. & Stacey, N. ‘Strange changes’: Indigenous perspectives of climate change and adaptation in NE Arnhem Land (Australia). Glob. Environ. Change 20, 681–692 (2010).

Weatherhead, E., Gearheard, S. & Barry, R. G. Changes in weather persistence: Insight from Inuit knowledge. Glob. Environ. Change 20, 523–528 (2010).

Battaglini, A., Barbeau, G., Bindi, M. & Badeck, F-W. European winegrowers’ perceptions of climate change impact and options for adaptation. Reg. Environ. Change 9, 61–73 (2009).

Orlove, B. S., Chiang, J. C. H. & Cane, M. A. Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Niño on Pleiades visibility. Nature 403, 68–71 (2000).

Marin, A. Riders under storms: Contributions of nomadic herders’ observations to analysing climate change in Mongolia. Glob. Environ. Change 20, 162–176 (2010).

Rebetez, M. Public expectation as an element of human perception of climate change. Climatic Change 32, 495–509 (1996).

Ruddell, D., Harlan, S. L., Grossman-Clarke, S. & Chowell, G. Scales of perception: Public awareness of regional and neighborhood climates. Climatic Change 111, 581–607 (2012).

Mitchell, T. D. & Jones, P. D. An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high-resolution grids. Int. J. Clim. 25, 693–712 (2005).

Dobson, J. E., Bright, E. A., Coleman, P. R., Durfee, R. C. & Worley, B. A. LandScan: A global population database for estimating populations at risk. Photogr. Eng. Remote Sens. 66, 849–857 (2000).

Egan, P. J. & Mullin, M. Turning personal experience into political attitudes: The effect of local weather on Americans’ perceptions about global warming. J. Polit. 74, 796–809 (2012).