Recently experienced local weather conditions often have a greater impact on people's perceived threat of global climate change than less memorable scientific data regarding long-term planetary weather trends.This best illustrates the impact of:

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The availability heuristic is the cognitive bias where people rely on easily accessible or memorable information to make judgments about a topic. In this case, the recent local weather conditions are more salient and easily accessible in people's minds, causing them to place more weight on them when thinking about climate change.

Recently Experienced Local Weather Conditions Often Have a Greater Impact