Science likes to deal in facts and natural laws, not superstition or hysteria, so the study also found that the more scientifically literate the person, the more likely they were to be dismissive of opposing beliefs; so smarter people worry about climate change less and likely have less patience talking to activists who just blame some vast right wing conspiracy or the military-industrial complex for a general lack of fear about climate change.
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Hmm ...
... Increased Science Literacy Correlated To Less Worry About Climate Change.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to start.
ReplyDeleteWhat they could have stated, more accurately, is that intelligent people are more likely to want to look at the data and decide for themselves, NOT that this correlates to disbelief in climate change.
In fact, most of the scientifically literate people I have encountered throughout my life are convinced that climate change is happening. You can doubt the causes, you can doubt the trend, but no one can doubt that they glaciers are melting. That's raw data.
If smarter worry people worry about climate change less, it's because they do not doubt.
I agree, Art, that would have been a better way of putting it. Also, the use of the phrase "climate change" muddies things up, if for no other reason than that climate is a chaotic system characterized by constant change. Not to believe in climate change is not to believe in climate, which is really not an option. To be skeptical of certain things that have been asserted regarding climate is yet another thing.
ReplyDelete