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Political Views Trump Facts for Some on Climate Change, New UNH Research Finds
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2012/oct/lw04hamilton.cfm[font face=Serif]October 4, 2012
[font size=5]Political Views Trump Facts for Some on Climate Change, New UNH Research Finds[/font]
[font size=3]DURHAM, N.H. – For some people, scientific facts help determine what they believe about an issue. But for others, political views trump scientific facts and determine what information they will accept as true. It’s a phenomenon that is particularly prevalent on the issue of climate change.
These are among the research findings presented by Lawrence Hamilton, professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, in the article, “Did the Arctic ice recover? Demographics of true and false climate facts.” The article is available online now in the journal Weather, Climate, and Society.
“Science education and outreach efforts commonly aim to communicate basic information that underlies scientific conclusions. An information-to-conclusions ordering follows the natural logic of science, but it fares less well with public opinion on politicized topics where bias works in the opposite direction. Even well-established observations may be discounted in favor of ideologically more palatable claims available to anyone with television or an Internet connection,” Hamilton says.
Hamilton used data from representative national and statewide surveys conducted in 2011 and 2012 by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00008.1[font size=5]Political Views Trump Facts for Some on Climate Change, New UNH Research Finds[/font]
[font size=3]DURHAM, N.H. – For some people, scientific facts help determine what they believe about an issue. But for others, political views trump scientific facts and determine what information they will accept as true. It’s a phenomenon that is particularly prevalent on the issue of climate change.
These are among the research findings presented by Lawrence Hamilton, professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, in the article, “Did the Arctic ice recover? Demographics of true and false climate facts.” The article is available online now in the journal Weather, Climate, and Society.
“Science education and outreach efforts commonly aim to communicate basic information that underlies scientific conclusions. An information-to-conclusions ordering follows the natural logic of science, but it fares less well with public opinion on politicized topics where bias works in the opposite direction. Even well-established observations may be discounted in favor of ideologically more palatable claims available to anyone with television or an Internet connection,” Hamilton says.
Hamilton used data from representative national and statewide surveys conducted in 2011 and 2012 by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
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