Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, February 29, 2008 6:00:14 PM
Another classic from the Tierney Lab
If only the masses could understand the science of global warming, they’d be alarmed, right? Wrong, according to the surprising results of a survey of Americans published in the journal Risk Analysis by researchers at Texas A&M University.
After asking a national sample of more than 1,000 Americans how much
they knew about global warming and how they felt about it, the
researchers report that respondents who are better-informed about
global warming “both feel less personally responsible for global
warming, and also show less concern for global warming.”
Another unexpected result: “Respondents who showed a great deal of
confidence that scientists understand global warming and climate change
showed significantly less concern for the risks of global warming than
did those who have lower trust in scientists.”