# In an op-ed, Prof. Adam Alter explains why we ignore global warming

1 Faculty News November 21, 2012 ![Huffington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/huffpost192x144.jpg?itok=sF2Y0c9v)>

Excerpt from [The Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-alter/global-warming-denial-psychology_b_2170419.html) -- "Humans are better at focusing on the moderate, specific, localized devastation of a major earthquake than on the great but murky devastation that global warming will bring in the middle part of the 21st century."

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