The more important question is why are so many people climate change demagogues, fanatics, and alarmists? Who is behind it and promoting it? Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and so on.
Then we have a bunch of misanthropes which adopt any ideology to blame humans for misery etc.!
Why is climate change such a powerful modern religion (dressed up as science) reminding of medieval superstition? Have we humans not learnt anything since the renaissance? Fact is that our knowledge about the complex phenomenon of climate and the sun are still poorly understood!
That such a study comes out of the land of tree huggers and climate change fanatics, i.e. Germany, is no surprise!
Then, there is what appears to be a very flawed experiment underlying this study!
"Do climate change deniers bend the facts to avoid having to modify their environmentally harmful behavior? ...
A surprisingly large number of people still downplay [???] the impact of climate change or deny that it is primarily a product of human activity. But why? ...
A surprisingly large number of people still downplay [???] the impact of climate change or deny that it is primarily a product of human activity. But why? ...
Self-deception to preserve a positive self-image ...
At the center of the experiments was a donation worth $20. Participants were allocated at random to one of two groups. The members of the first group were able to split the $20 between two organizations, both of which were committed to combating climate change. By contrast, those in the second group could decide to keep the $20 for themselves instead of giving it away and would then actually receive the money at the end. ..."
From the abstract:
"Climate change is arguably one of the greatest challenges today. Although the scientific consensus [???] is that human activities caused climate change, a substantial part of the population downplays or denies human responsibility. In this registered report, we present causal evidence on a potential explanation for this discrepancy: motivated reasoning. We conducted a tailored survey experiment on a broadly representative sample of 4,000 US adults to provide causal evidence on how motivated cognition shapes beliefs about climate change and influences the demand for slanted information. We further explore the role of motives on environmentally harmful behaviour. Contrary to our hypotheses, we find no evidence that motivated cognition can help to explain widespread climate change denial and environmentally harmful behaviour."
Weshalb leugnen Menschen den Klimawandel? (University of Bonn) Studie der Universität Bonn und des Instituts zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) kommt zu einem unerwarteten Ergebnis
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