Daily Climate: New study links current attitudes on climate change to the slow transformation of societal views on smoking bans and the abolition of slavery. Maybe what we have here isn’t just a failure to communicate. They have become ‘social facts,’ and with that shift, action becomes possible. – Andy Hoffman, University of Michigan Addressing climate change requires a shift in cultural attitudes about greenhouse gas emissions on a scale similar to the rise of abolitionism in the 19th century, according…