The world won't listen

• Autores: Adam Corner
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2936, 2013, pág. 28
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Corner talks about the link between human activity and climatic change. One of the most striking findings is that concern about climate change is not only, or even mostly, a product of how much people know about science. Increased knowledge tends to harden existing opinions. These findings, and many more, are increasingly available to campaigners and science communicators, but it is not clear that lessons are being learned. In particular, there is a great deal of resistance towards the idea that communicating climate change requires more than explaining the science. Climate policies such as the regulation of industrial emissions often seem to clash with conservative political views. And people work backwards from their values, filtering the facts according to their pre-existing beliefs.