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Clear climate information can strongly affect support for action, Irish study finds
- A new Irish study has investigated the public's understanding of climate change and how it affects support for action, Lauren Boland reports.
- People who are provided with information about climate change and its causes are more likely to be in favour of measures to tackle it.
- But we tend to underestimate the benefits of high-impact actions, such as eating less meat, and overestimate low-impact actions like recycling.