Americans are surprisingly rational about climate change, new study finds

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Americans are surprisingly rational about climate change, new study finds..

Human activities caused the recent warming of the Earth 1. Despite the near-unanimous scientific consensus on this matter1,2,3, a substantial part of the population denies or downplays the contribution of humans to climate change. In a 2019 Pew study, 30% of US adults said humans play only a partial role and 20% said no or a minor role in climate change4. The 2022 report Climate Change in the American Mind finds similar results: a third of the respondents said that climate change is due to natural changes and is not caused mostly by human activities5. How can this discrepancy be explained? Various factors affecting beliefs on climate change have been proposed in recent literature6,7. For this project, we focus on the potential explanation that climate change denial stems from motivated reasoning patterns.

Americans are surprisingly rational about climate change, new study finds..

Like it or not, AGW i.e. human caused global warming is just a theory. You can't follow scientific method until you have not all alternative viable hypothesis disproved and excluded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Albert Einstein: “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not"

[–]ZephirAWT[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Every rational stance has its rational explanation: Monthly prices for natural gas in the United States and Europe

Natural gas prices in Europe were about five times higher than those of the U.S. Prices across the European continent tend to be notably higher than those in the U.S. as the latter benefits from being a major hydrocarbon producer.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Hey this is fun: a union of your posts on peer reviewed papers being retracted and this one:

Mark Lynas ‘99% Consensus’ on Climate Change – Busted in Peer Review.

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Mark Lynas ‘99% Consensus’ on Climate Change – Busted in Peer Review.

The 99% consensus, as defined by the authors, is actually an upper limit evaluation because of the large number of “neutral” papers which were counted as pro-consensus in the paper and probably does not reflect the true situation.

The massive consensus of climate scientists on AGW is real and reproducible one - they just learned to ignore non reviewed journals during its evaluation. The emphasizing of consensus serves for propagandist purposes of course - but in they eyes of history I wouldn't make scientific mainstream less dumb and ignorant, than it really currently is. And geothermal model still isn't matter of discussion even for climate skeptics, who merely tend to denigrate the scope of climate changes rather than to explain it.

Even Americans highly concerned about climate change dramatically underestimate the scientific consensus

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I am reminded of the election of Saddam Hussein, with 99% of the voters on his side.

Search "consensus" on WUWT and see how well your consensus holds up to logic.

[–]ZephirAWT[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fact that even skeptics don't consider geothermal explanation of global warming speaks for itself. We still have no scientific discussion about origin of climate changes - just their non-critical pushing with alarmists and similarly non-critical denial by their opponents. Because both sides are financially motivated into their stance: the money is what makes scientists blind.