Relationships among conspiratorial beliefs, conservatism and climate scepticism across nations
Relationships among conspiratorial beliefs, conservatism and climate scepticism across nations
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DOI：
10.1038/s41558-018-0157-2
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
影响因子：
30.7
通讯作者：
Fielding, Kelly S.
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作者：
Hornsey, Matthew J.;Harris, Emily A.;Fielding, Kelly S.
研究表明，对人为气候变化的怀疑部分是由阴谋和保守的意识形态形成的，这些研究主要基于在美国收集的数据。因此，气候变化信仰的意识形态性质可能反映了美国的一些独特之处，而不是一种国际现象。在这里，我们发现气候怀疑主义和意识形态指数之间的正相关性在美国比其他24个国家更强，更一致。这表明，美国有一种政治文化，特别强烈地鼓励公民通过他们世界观的透镜来评价气候科学。此外，大多数国家的意识形态和气候怀疑主义之间的关系薄弱，这表明阴谋论思想或保守的意识形态几乎没有使人们倾向于拒绝气候科学的内在因素，这一发现对全球气候减缓努力具有令人鼓舞的影响。
Studies showing that scepticism about anthropogenic climate change is shaped, in part, by conspiratorial and conservative ideologies are based on data primarily collected in the United States. Thus, it may be that the ideological nature of climate change beliefs reflects something distinctive about the United States rather than being an international phenomenon. Here we find that positive correlations between climate scepticism and indices of ideology were stronger and more consistent in the United States than in the other 24 nations tested. This suggests that there is a political culture in the United States that offers particularly strong encouragement for citizens to appraise climate science through the lens of their worldviews. Furthermore, the weak relationships between ideology and climate scepticism in the majority of nations suggest that there is little inherent to conspiratorial ideation or conservative ideologies that predisposes people to reject climate science, a finding that has encouraging implications for climate mitigation efforts globally.