We are ruining America, notes dour New York Times columnist David Brooks, suddenly and considerably alarmed by a
standard feature of American life, if not
human nature — the
tendency of the privileged and powerful to guard jealously every advantage they have been handed or earned.
Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a
standard nine - question test), political ideology, and
tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «
human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.