Why we are poles apart on climate change
The problem isn’t the public’s reasoning capacity; it’s the
polluted science-communication environment that drives people apart, says Dan
Kahan.
Understandably anxious to explain persistent controversy
over climate change, the media have discovered a new culprit: the public. By
piecing together bits of psychological research, many news reporters, opinion
writers and bloggers have concluded that people are simply too irrational to
recognize the implications of climate-change science.
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