{"id":6466,"date":"2011-07-06T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2011-07-06T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:05:32","slug":"why-the-climate-debate-is-a-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6466","title":{"rendered":"Why the Climate Debate is a Culture War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/private-label-services/">Ambien 10 Mg Price</a> If there is anyone out there who still believes that a lack of knowledge of climate science (e.g., the deficit model) prevents people from grasping the consequences of global warming, raise your hand.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/resourcehub/">Order Ambien Online</a> Now read this passage from the abstract of a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871503\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/recommended-reading/"></a> The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to\u00a0public understanding: limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess\u00a0technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A\u00a0large survey of U.S. adults (<em>N<\/em> = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly <em>less<\/em> likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/payment/">https://dentalprovidence.com/payment/</a> The full <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871503\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a>, a product of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalcognition.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yale&#8217;s Cultural Cognition Project<\/a>, can be downloaded for free and is well worth reading. Based on their findings and an accumulation of social science research, the authors conclude:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/experience/">Order Zopiclone Online</a> It is thus plain that differences in our respondents&#8217; cultural values had a bigger effect on perception of climate-change risks than did differences in their degrees of either science literacy or numeracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/about/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/about/</a> Even Chris Mooney was forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/little-knowledge-why-biggest-problem-climate-skeptics-may-be-their-confidence\" target=\"_blank\">concede<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/toilet-installation/"></a> This is bad, bad news for anyone who thinks that better math and science education will help us solve our problems on climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/vizhub/"></a> Now let&#8217;s rewind to earlier this year and the spirited thread (over 200 comments) of this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2011\/02\/19\/on-climate-communication\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, when Michael Tobis <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2011\/02\/19\/on-climate-communication\/#comment-46972\" target=\"_blank\">insisted<\/a> that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/black_canyon/">https://worklivelaos.com/black_canyon/</a> the deficit model has to work. Facts emerge and cultures change in response. As the facts emerge more unambiguously, the cultural shift needs to &#8220;get in gear&#8221;\u009d and not sooner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/generations-carpet-cleaning/">Buy Alprazolam No Prescription</a> The Yale paper suggests that Tobis has it exactly backwards, that no cultural shift will emerge until differing worldviews are given greater consideration in the climate debate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/mexico/"></a> A strategy that focuses only on improving transmission\u00a0of sound scientific information, it should be clear, is highly unlikely to achieve this objective. The principal reason people disagree about climate change science is not that it has been communicated to them in\u00a0forms they cannot understand. Rather, it is that positions on climate change convey values&#8221;\u201dcommunal\u00a0concern versus individual self-reliance; prudent self-abnegation versus the heroic pursuit of reward; humility versus ingenuity; harmony with nature versus mastery over it&#8221;\u201dthat divide them along cultural\u00a0lines. Merely amplifying or improving the clarity of information on climate change science won&#8217;t generate public consensus if risk communicators fail to take heed of the cues that determine what climate\u00a0change risk perceptions <em>express<\/em> about the cultural commitments of those who form them.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/contact/"></a> In fact, such inattention can deepen polarization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/tech/"></a> Al Gore, in his recent hard-edged Rolling Stone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/climate-of-denial-20110622?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a>, wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/equipo-colombia/"></a> The climate crisis, in reality, is a struggle for the soul of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/doodles4leaders/">Buy Tramadol Without Prescription</a> No, in reality, it seems more a struggle to reconcile climate science with competing values. But before we get to that point, I think some leading climate communicators, such as Gore, need to come to grips with the findings and suggestions laid out in the Yale Cultural Cognition <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871503\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
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