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Dispatches from Harvard Forest - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    cool list of posts detailing experiments in the harvard forest. 
John Burk

Culture splits climate views, not science smarts - 0 views

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  • Support for climate science doesn't increase with science literacy, a survey suggests. Rather, people with technical backgrounds just dig in harder on their views about global warming, finds the study in the Nature Climate Change journal.
  • What's going on? Basically people with technical smarts just use their abilities to better rationalize their already-held views. And why is that? Fitting in with your friends matters a lot more to people than getting climate science right, suggests Kahan, by email (see his Cultural Cognition website for more details):
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    Culture splits climate views, not science smarts
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