Sentences with phrase «beliefs about the climate change»

A North Carolina State University study of middle school science classes explored whether teachers» beliefs about climate change influenced students» perceptions.

«Early adolescence is a time when students» views are still forming, and we wanted to find out which factors affect their beliefs about climate change.»

Surprisingly, none of the four major positive messages changed participants» core beliefs about climate change.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

But Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University, said the only group affected by cold weather in terms of belief about climate change is the 30 percent of the population who distrust scientists.

Hamilton's analysis indicates that these facts subjectively fall into two categories; those that are, and those that are not directly connected to people's beliefs about climate change.

The papal message did, however, indirectly influence people's beliefs about climate change by raising the Pope's credibility on that issue, most strongly among liberals.

Their income, level of education, whether or not they were newcomers to their areas as adults, whether they rented or owned their home, their political party affiliations, their perceptions of the effects of conservation rules on their communities, and their beliefs about climate change were all taken into consideration when their answers were assessed.

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

There are wide differences in beliefs about climate change by politics.

• unlikely to change their beliefs about climate change.

The only line on the page relating to Brulle's Conspiracy is the claim that «Most people rely on secondary sources for information, especially the mass media; and some of these sources are affected by concerted campaigns against policies to limit CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions, which promote beliefs about climate change that are not well - supported by scientific evidence.»

The effect they were testing: That is, Republicans more than Democrats see climate change solutions as a greater threat to the economy, and Republicans» economic beliefs about climate change policies mediate their skepticism of climate change science...

Our actual world is thus being reshaped to fit false beliefs about climate change and temps.

Right now academia, the media, and think tanks are working very hard and the new Next Generation Science Standards require (I read the NAS workshop program that came out recently) that the focus be on changing beliefs about climate change and new values in ways that discredit the rational mind completely.

The fact that the current weather influences Americans» belief about climate change has long frustrated scientists.

Second, the effect of the induced increase in perceived scientific consensus is fully mediated onto support for public action via the key beliefs about climate change.

In other words, belief in the scientific consensus functions as an initial «gateway» to changes in key beliefs about climate change, which in turn, influence support for public action.

Fielding, K. S., Head, B. W., Laffan, W., Western, W. & Hoegh - Guldberg, O. Australian politicians» beliefs about climate change: Politicial partisanship and political ideology.

More specifically, we posit perceived scientific agreement as a «gateway belief» that either supports or undermines other key beliefs about climate change, which in turn, influence support for public action.

As hypothesized, the effect of the treatment (i.e. increased belief in the scientific consensus) on the expressed need for public action is fully mediated by the intervening variables (i.e., key beliefs about climate change).

Thus, while the model predicts that the perceived level of scientific agreement acts as a key psychological motivator, its effect on support for action is assumed to be fully mediated by key beliefs about climate change (H3).

A new study published in the journal Public Understanding of Science (PDF available here) surveyed a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 Americans in 2008 and 2011 about their media consumption and beliefs about climate change.

Note: you are discussing my beliefs about the climate change policy debate.

The researchers ran about 800 computer models to complete the most comprehensive and specific analysis to date of how personal experience and perceptions of local climate anomalies affect beliefs about climate change.

In the United States for example, there is a high correlation between beliefs about gay marriage and beliefs about climate change.

More important still than their personal beliefs about climate change, the Yale study echoed previous surveys in finding that, contrary to McConnell's claims, most Republicans are down with the idea of doing something about it.

• The level of understanding and specific beliefs about climate change vary from region to region.

Indeed, Americans» beliefs about climate change seem to be more influenced by their local weather than global trends, according to a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Not exact matches

Badlands National Park posted several facts about climate change on its official Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, sharing statistics that might contradict the beliefs of President Donald Trump's new administration.

Several speakers expressed concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's denial of climate change, Vice President Mike Pence's creationist beliefs, and Trump's willingness to work with prominent antivaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. «In the face of fanaticism and fear, science is regaining its ethical and political stance,» said Rosaura Ruiz Guitiérrez, director of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico here.

As the U.S. economy slumped between 2008 and 2012, multiple surveys showed Americans» belief in climate change dropped about 10 percentage points before rebounding.

Experts should take note of local knowledge and beliefs when making plans about how to help people in vulnerable regions cope with the impacts of climate change.

Participants read fabricated news articles about climate change and then completed a survey gauging their beliefs on the issue.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

On climate change disproportionately harming the poor: Awareness of the encyclical didn't directly influence people's beliefs about the effects of climate change on the poor.

On the seriousness of climate change: Among people who were aware of the encyclical, there was no direct effect on people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change.

The Senate's rare votes on climate change this week could spill into presidential election campaigns next year and pressure Republican candidates to explain their beliefs about climbing temperatures — and it might help them.

Moreover, we found that when respondents» perception of the level of scientific agreement increased, this led to significant changes in other key beliefs about the issue, such as the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused and a worrisome problem.

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He says that's a lesson from his work on climate change doubters, whose real driver often isn't their beliefs about the role of carbon dioxide but rather their conservative political views.

As many as 65 percent of people in some countries haven't even heard of climate change, and perceptions of risk often depend on local temperatures as much as beliefs about humans» role in the changing environment, a new study finds.

The asymmetric effect of beliefs about global warming on perceptions of local seasonal climate conditions in the U.S.» Global Environmental Change 23:1488 - 1500.

Man - made climate change is a hot topic and, regardless of your beliefs about the effect of man - made emissions on the global climate, it's inevitable that the internal combustion engine will eventually be all but wiped out of existence.

As the journey begins, a silky female voiceover explains the core tenets of the New Protocol — the need to elaborate a new «spiritual relationship with the universe of pattern, matter and energy we call home» in an era where «religious extremism has turned into apocalyptic death cults» and belief in the afterlife means it is pointless to worry about climate change and endangered ecosystems.

Doing so allowed them to approximate what national public opinion is about climate change while also revealing Americans» different beliefs, attitudes, and what policies they support.

While the vagaries (i.e. AMO) of climate change study may glaze the eyes of all but dedicated scientists who are paid to examine these climate change causative permutations, the consequences of being WRONG about the facts and acting on those wrong beliefs prematurely, are hardly vague.

Permit me to challenge two things; your simplistic description of the risk perception psychology that explains why the public doesn't seem to care about such a huge threat, and more profoundly, the naive belief that public concern about climate change can make much difference.

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