If people understand the facts about climate change, then they will take action to slow its advance. Right? Wrong. A cursory glance at modern society makes it clear that the statement is not necessarily, or even mostly true. Even those who fully accept the science of climate change often do not act to delay its disastrous predictions. Which raises an important question: why doesn’t climate science trigger the human moral judgement system?  That is precisely what Ezra Markowitz and Azam Shariff address in a paper published earlier this year in the journal Natural Climate Change. Fortunately — at least for those of us who might not have the time to read a full paper — Markowitz recently detailed some of their research in an article on the…