COVID-19 has more Americans thinking about science. Could this be a Sputnik moment?
A story featured in six outlets references Climate Insights 2020 while discussing how climate change belief may be swayed.
"Jon A. Krosnick, director of the Political Psychology Research at Stanford University, is not so sure. In his own surveys, conducted with the think tank Resources for the Future, public acceptance of climate-change science, though high, has not changed in years. What’s changed is that more people say they know something about the issue and have become more sure of their opinions.
And according to decades of psychology research, people who are paying close attention to a topic can be harder to persuade, he said.
Intelligence has little to do with it. People may cling to an unscientific view because it is tied up with their very identity, leading them to dismiss contrary evidence."
