Sentences with phrase «conservative white males»

Perhaps, like the trend of denial among conservative white males, there is nothing too surprising about that conclusion.

McCright's study, «Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States,» was published online in July and printed in the October 2011 issue of Global Environmental Change, which ranks first out of 77 journals on environmental studies.

I'll take this opportunity to share a link to a new article on the «conservative white male effect» (CWME) that McCright and I have in press.

Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

«If it's conservative white males on global warming, pick a different issue and you'll find another group that has trouble thinking in a way that agrees with experts.»

To test for the trend amongst conservative white males, the researchers compared the demographic to «all other adults.»

«Within the ranks of elites, climate change denialists are overwhelmingly conservative white males,» reads the report, pointing to figures like talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Marshall Institute CEO, William O'Keefe.

«Something that would challenge the status quo is something [conservative white males] want to shun.»

Results showed, for instance, that 29.6 percent of conservative white males believe the effects of global warming will never happen, versus 7.4 percent of other adults.

«The results presented here show that conservative white males in the general public have become a very receptive audience for these efforts.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

To understand why there is a trend amongst conservative white males, the Gallup data was cross-examined with research about the «white male effect» — the idea that white males were either more accepting of risk or less risk averse than the rest of the public.

While all groups have a tendency to do this, he said, in the case the climate change, conservative white males are especially likely to exhibit this self - protecting characteristic.

In holding for «confident» conservative white males, the study showed 48.4 percent believe global warming won't happen, versus 8.6 percent of other adults.

As a recent study shows, conservative white males are less likely to believe in climate change.

Taylor also argues that the paper's claim that «the most prominent denialists are conservative white males,» overlooks the other side of the political equation.

«The results presented here show that conservative white males in the general public have become a very receptive audience for these efforts.»

Conservative white males» motivation to ignore a certain risk — the risk of climate change in this case — therefore, has to do with defending the status of their identity tied to the white male establishment.

Aaron M. McCright & Riley E. Dunlap (2012): Bringing ideology in: the conservative white male effect on worry about environmental problems in the USA, Journal of Risk Research, DOI: 10.1080 / 13669877.2012.726242

A study in 2011 found that conservative white males in the US were far more likely than other Americans to deny climate change.