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A matrix of nine rows and six columns, one column for each of six icons relevant to climate change. The matrix entries show the number of respondents who indicated which icon they found most concerning. The nine rows show different classes of respondents who were exposed to different subsets (of size four) of the six icons
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The six icons were used in this study were: description{ item[PB] polar bears, which face extinction through loss of ice floe hunting grounds item[NB] the Norfolk Broads, which flood due to intense rainfall events item[LF] London flooding, as a result of sea level rise item[THC] the Thermo-haline circulation, which may slow or stop as a result of anthropogenic modification of the hydrological cycle item[OA] oceanic acidification as a result of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide item[WAIS] the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is calving into the sea as a result of climate change }
Data kindly supplied by Saffron O'Neill of the University of East Anglia
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