Why Is climate skpeticism more common among right-wing conservatives? | Opinion

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Psychology can help to cast light on why people on both sides of the political spectrum hold different views on climate change.

. However, these accounts do not completely explain the partisan polarization over the years when an increasing volume of information and evidence on climate change has been presented to the public.

Based on these findings, we recently proposed that people's political motivations shape their visual attention to climate change evidence, which influences their perception of the evidence and subsequent actions to mitigate climate change. These altered perceptions and actions can reinforce their initial motivations, further entrenching the divide. To put simply, what you believe influences what you see, and guides your future actions.

We found that liberals were more likely to sign the petition or donate when the rising phase was highlighted than when the flat phase was highlighted. In other words, when attention was drawn to climate evidence that aligns with their prior beliefs, people were more likely to act.

 

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A desire to wallow in ignorance. Unbelievable

The same answer it's always been, they don't understand science. I mean science itself. They don't understand how research or scientific methods even work, let alone conclusions drawn from them. It's the same group who thinks scientific theory is magically different than law.

Lack of intellect

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