| rocketpig said: Without reading all of that incredibly dense text (I have to get back to work soon), it appears that political alignment has as much (or more) to do with climate change beliefs as scientific understanding. I don't find that even the slightest bit surprising. |
No, the surprsing part is that you are more likely to disagree the more you know about science.
If you are a democrat and know more about science you are very slightly more concerened about Global Warming effects the a democrat who isn't cocnerned.
While if your a republican and you understand science better your FAR less likely to be concerned about Global warming then your rank and file republican.
Which leads to a general trend on average that shows the more you know about science, the less you are worried about global warming.
It was hypothisized by the paper, that it would be the dumber less sceintifically informed republicans that would be those outliers.
Instead it's the scientificly informed ones who have a reason to look at it skeptically.
