It is commonly assumed that personal experiences of a changing climate will influence people’s attitudes to the extent that they will be more likely to acknowledge anthropogenic climate change as a real threat and therefore be more willing to accept both mitigation and adaptation efforts. In the article, the authors examine how survey participants’ personal experiences of extreme events and climate-related changes in the natural environment influenced their perceptions of climate change. Using data from a nationally representative survey conducted in Norway in 2015 and the results of logistic regressions, the authors find that individual observations of changes in nature were linked to higher levels of concern with regard to climate change, as well as to attitudes that were more positive towards personal mitigation and adaption efforts. Somewhat counter-intuitively, they also find that participants who had personally experienced a natural hazard event were less concerned about climate change compared with participants without such experiences. The authors conclude that personal experience of the consequences of climate change may in some cases have a limited effect on enhancing people’s concerns about climate change.

通常认为，气候变化的个人经历会在一定程度上影响人们的态度，使他们更可能将人为的气候变化视为真正的威胁，因此更愿意接受缓解和适应工作。在本文中，作者研究了调查参与者对极端事件和自然环境中与气候相关的变化的个人经历如何影响他们对气候变化的看法。利用2015年在挪威进行的一次全国代表性调查的数据以及logistic回归的结果，作者发现，对自然变化的个人观察与对气候变化的更高关注水平以及对气候变化的态度更加相关。积极地进行个人缓解和适应工作。与直觉相反，他们还发现与没有这种经历的参与者相比，亲身经历自然灾害事件的参与者对气候变化的关注较少。作者得出的结论是，在某些情况下，个人对气候变化后果的经验可能对增强人们对气候变化的担忧的作用有限。