Why we fail to notice climate change

Simple visuals can reveal climate change we’re wired to overlook

A man walks on frozen Lake Champlain in northern Vermont.

A man walks across frozen Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vt., in February. The lake, which used to freeze every winter, froze this year for the first time in seven years.

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In northern Vermont, where I live, old newspaper clippings show pictures of people driving trucks across Lake Champlain.