{"id":3840,"date":"2015-02-02T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2015-02-02T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:09:43","slug":"bridging-the-gap-between-climate-change-believers-and-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/bridging-the-gap-between-climate-change-believers-and-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the gap between climate change believers and skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Building public support for strategies to minimize human-induced climate change must go beyond educating the public about the science if skeptics are to be convinced.<\/p>\n<p>A new study of Americans claims that belief or denial of the human role in climate change is often part of ones self-identity and as such is similar to other socio-political beliefs.\u00a0The authors suggest that part of the group consciousness for each side is anger towards the opposing side, and that antagonizing either side is likely to further polarize their views.<\/p>\n<p>The authors suggest that in addition to strictly scientific arguments, scientists could try to convince climate skeptics that their actions are unlikely to prevent action on climate change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nclimate2507\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em> on\u00a0<strong>February 2<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Ana-Maria Bliuc, Monash University, Australia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building public support for strategies to minimize human-induced climate change must go beyond educating the public about the science if skeptics are to be convinced. A new study of Americans claims that belief or denial of the human role in climate change is often part of ones self-identity and as such is similar to other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2363,31,1445,1508,2362],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-belief","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-psychology","tag-sociology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-ZW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}