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Experts are almost unanimous: Human-made climate change is happening right now *(Cook_et_al.,_2013). The public has developed a better awareness of climate change and its risks *(Read_et_al.,_1994; *Reynolds_et_al.,_2010), although they may not see climate change as a priority *(Leiserowitz_et_al.,_2013). A large body of research has focused on the ways that people understand climate change predictions (e.g., *Budescu,_Por_and_Broomell,_2012; *Budescu_et_al.,_2014). However, we know very little about how people form climate change predictions. Recent evidence suggests that people tend to focus their predictions on extreme and rare outcomes rather than moderate outcomes *(Juanchich,_Teigen_and_Gourdon,_2013; *Teigen,_Juanchich_and_Filkuková,_2014; *Teigen,_Juanchich_and_Riege,_2013). This preference for predicting extreme and rare outcomes can be detrimental to the accurate communication of climate change events because extreme outcomes are, by definition, very unlikely.