Knowledge and Confidence in Knowledge About Climate Change Among Experts, Journalists, Politicians, and Laypersons
Knowledge and Confidence in Knowledge About Climate Change Among Experts, Journalists, Politicians, and Laypersons
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专家、记者、政治家和非专业人士对气候变化的了解和信心
DOI：
10.1177/0013916508314998
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
T. Gärling
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作者：
E. Sundblad;A. Biel;T. Gärling
在专家、记者、政治家和外行中调查了自己对气候变化知识的了解和信心。在瑞典，65名专家、72名环境记者、145名担任环境委员会主席的政治家和621名非专业人士的子样本回答了有关当前气候状况、原因和气候变化后果的调查问题。专家提供了最高水平的知识，其次是记者、政治家和外行。在所有群体中，对原因的了解多于对气候状况和未来后果的了解，而后者对健康后果的了解少于对天气和海洋/冰川后果的了解。此外，专家对自己的知识表示最有信心，其次是记者、政治家和外行。然而，调整的信心，在自己的知识，以实际的知识是在记者比专家略高。
Knowledge and confidence in one's own knowledge of climate change was investigated among experts, journalists, politicians, and laypersons. Subsamples of 65 experts, 72 environmental journalists, 145 politicians being chairs of environmental committees, and 621 laypersons in Sweden responded to survey questions concerning current climate state, causes, and consequences of climate change. Experts presented the highest level of knowledge, followed by journalists, politicians, and laypersons. In all the groups, knowledge of causes was greater than that of climate state and of future consequences, and among the latter knowledge was less of health consequences than that of weather and sea/glacier consequences. Also, experts expressed the highest level of confidence in their own knowledge, followed by journalists, politicians, and laypersons. Nevertheless, the adjustment of confidence in one's own knowledge to actual knowledge was somewhat higher among journalists than among experts.