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People are so quick to normalize extreme weather in the face of climate change we have become like the proverbial frog slowly boiling alive in a pot of water, scientists warned. In the famous fable, a ...

Many people have heard the old metaphor about the frog; if you put one in boiling water it will hop out, but if you gradually increase the temperature of the water it will let itself be boiled. It’s ...

The parable of the boiled frog is one of the great metaphors on human behavior and risk. The story goes that if you place a frog into a pot of boiling water it will leap out; equating the high ...

When writing about climate change, the boiled frog analogy serves a useful purpose, and it goes like this: If you place a frog in boiling water, it will immediately jump out. However, if you place a ...