Our minds handle risk strangely – and that’s partly why we delayed climate action so long
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by Jeff Rotman, Deakin University We now have a very narrow window to significantly and rapidly slash greenhouse gas emissions…
by Jeff Rotman, Deakin University We now have a very narrow window to significantly and rapidly slash greenhouse gas emissions…
It makes so much sense.
Scientists can be brilliant communicators. We are trained to work with collaborations large and small, present our work in…
Talking about climate change with family can be nerve-wracking and infuriating any time of year. But the opportunity for…
I’ve always been fascinated by the human body and how it works. I used to stay up past my bedtime, poring over my grandparents…
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Anyone can get sucked in.
But you can learn to be.
When science and anecdote share a podium, you must decide how to value each. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty…
It seems today the mistrust of official health advice and spread of “alternative” treatments for COVID-19 are as frightening as…
(Este texto foi inicialmente encomendado para sair em uma revista, mas, depois de finalizado, não obtive mais o retorno. Acabou…
Author: Mikael Klintman is professor of sociology at Lund University The flat Earth conspiracy is becoming increasingly popular.
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Uncertainty is to science what the score is to music. Everything scientists measure is subject to various types of ‘error’ …
The greatest uncertainty in our planet’s future lies in what next steps we take on climate policy. As scientists, our…
Science literacy is important, but without the parallel trait of "science curiosity," it can lead us…
Both the uncertainty inherent in scientific data, and the honesty of those scientists who report such data to any given audience…
Arthur Kary, UNSW; Ben Newell, UNSW, and Brett Hayes…
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You can read all the entries (all for now, that is) here. Expressive rationality. Refers to the tendency of individuals to (un…
There’s a debate between social scientists about whether climate change facts can change peoples’ minds or just polarize them…
Key naturalist doctrines such as the multiverse cannot be established on the basis of evidence. As we have seen, however…
Gregory J. Carbone, Professor of Geography, University of South…
Naturalists (who say nature is all there is) have recently sought to jimmy the rules around evidence to accommodate their…
Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R): a Research…
When asked about major threats to their country, Europeans are more likely than Americans to cite global climate change…
Research shows that Americans are far less concerned about the threat of global warming than their European counterparts.Presiden…
By Gregory J. Carbone, Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina When asked about major threats to their country…
Just 56 percent of Americans see climate change as a major threat, versus an average of 64 percent of Europeans surveyed.
Sceptics prefer to reject regulations to combat global warming and remain indifferent to the havoc it will wreak on future…
As a person who worked for years in psychology and neuroscience laboratories before coming to work in academic libraries, I…
As a person who worked for years in psychology and neuroscience laboratories before coming to work in academic libraries, I…
In a world where “post-truth” was 2016’s word of the year, many people are starting to doubt the efficacy of facts. Can science…
By John Cook, George Mason University and Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge In a world where “post-truth” was 2016…
I started this 3-part series noting that a lot of scientists (including myself) are very dismayed to be living in a post-fact…
Science isn't a universal mechanism for guiding beliefs, but it's our best guide to the natural world: If we can agree on that…
By: John Besley, Michigan State UniversityEarlier this fall, the nonpartisan nonprofit ScienceDebate.org released Donald Trump’s…
Scientific knowledge matters less than believing in the scientific method, researchers find.Continue reading on Pacific…
Neither intelligence nor education can stop you from forming prejudiced opinions – but an inquisitive attitude may help you…
Curiosity makes you resist the temptation to form opinions before you hear the science.
The latest survey data from Yale and George Mason universities underscores thepartisan divide on climate science denial – 73…
Climate change denial is still a huge problem among elected representatives, to say nothing of the general populace, and even…
Maria Pavlova/iStockphoto Consider two very different views about the human mind. In the first view…
Vor fünf Jahren wurde die Fachzeitschrift Nature Climate Change gegründet – als Ableger von Nature, der seit 1869 erscheinenden…
The 2016 election campaign has been already been marked by the preponderance of ‘expert’ pundits who hold forth on the…
This entry is part 7 of 10 in the Anthropologies #21 series.Next up we have an essay about climate change and education from…
School children conduct the volcano experiment — a right of passage. …
the colored bars are 0.95 CIs!!0. I was ambushed! Emlen Metz and Michael Weisberg, my fellow panelists at the International…
Acceptance of science has become increasingly polarized in the United States. Indeed, a recent Pew poll shows that there is a…
Health and…
Since the uptick in outbreaks of measles in the US, those arguing for the right not to vaccinate their children have come under…
IntroductionIn the mid-1970s after the consensus dismissed the bullshit idea of "global cooling," serious concerns were raised…
Though people might disagree on how to solve a problem, they can at least agree that the problem exists. Or can they? A new…
A chronicler of warnings…
(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) It's no secret that certain political worldviews prevent people from accepting the science…
The term ‘deficit model’ has traditionally meant treating people with autism by focusing on their limitations rather than their…
Demonstrators attend the People’s Climate March in New York on Sept. 21. (Porter Binks/EPA) This week’s People’s Climate March…
While there’s a 97% consensus among climate science experts and their research that humans are causing climate change, only…
Are we, the human species, unreasonable? Do rational arguments have any power to sway us, or is it all intuition, hidden…
Few issues in the United States reflect as deeply polarized divisions as climate change. Most explanations for the intense…
Don't read this blog post. Definitely don't read it to the end. Didn't I tell you not to read this blog post? You're still…
The politicized and polarized nature of the climate debate is well established. Those who track the testy, emotionally-charged…
The politicized and polarized nature of the climate debate is well established. Those who track the testy, emotionally-charged…
Those of us involved in journalism, education, and science like to believe that facts and science illuminate the way through…
A thoughtful person who had read some CCP studies asked me a really good question about the relationship between “in group…
Increased polarization calls not for surrender, but for a fresh approach. By Greg Breining – ensia Those of us involved in…
Photo Credit: außerirdische sind gesund via Compfight…
Andy "dotearth" Revkin, the Hank Aaron of environmental-science journalism, posted this question after a colloquy with other…
This is in the department "recurring misunderstanding that I should say something about in a single place so that I can simply…
One of the major goals of science education is for all citizens to have some basic level of science literacy. The rationale is…
Had a conversation w/ a really smart scholarly friend who shares my basic orientation toward science communication
When it comes to climate, “just the facts, ma’am” doesn’t seem to cut it for some. One big puzzle for climate scientists…
“Helvetica emerges in that period in 1957 where there’s felt to be a need for rational typefaces which can be applied to all…
I got into an interesting email exchange with my friend Mark McCaffrey, the Programs and Policy Director at the National Center…
Many thanks to all the people who sent me emails asking if I saw Cass Sunstein's op-ed on "biased assimilation" today in NYT…
In a recent post, Kevin Drum proposes the following explanation for the polarization in the U.S. public’s beliefs about climate…
This is my about my zillonth post on the so-called “asymmetry thesis”—the idea that culturally or ideologically motivated…
Everyone knows that science journalist Chris Mooney has written a book entitled The Republican Brain. In it, he synthesizes a…
Okay, not really-- but in a sense better than that: a simple model that is closer to being true than the most likely…
The record heat wave in the United States is raising a lot of questions about whether this is a preview of our future. It takes…
Why is democracy so difficult? Could be because it demands that each of us accept, as the anthropologist Clifford Geertz said…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck…
Science on a Sphere, Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg…
Fox News has just reviewed the content of an article in Nature Climate Change: Global warming skeptics as knowledgeable about…
Our study on the effects of science literacy and numeracy on climate change risk perceptions is now out in Nature Climate Change.