Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?
Kirk, Karin
http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/04/changing-minds-on-a-changing-climate/
http://www.desmogblog.com/2017/04/26/what-makes-climate-science-deniers-change-their-minds-reddit-confessional-gave-us-rare-insight
Date Written: 2017-04-26
Publisher: Desmog
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX20652
Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
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About a third of the commenters started off their post by discussing underlying reasons they originally rejected climate science. Of those, the most common involved beliefs of their family members.
I denied it through middle school, mostly because my family rigorously shot it down whenever it was remotely mentioned.
I grew up actively and obnoxiously denying climate change because my dad told me it wasn't real.
The Reddit commenters pointed to partisan and tribal values as the second most-common basis of their earlier climate change denial.
I never really questioned my opinion on climate change for a while; a lot of people I know denied climate change, so I figured they must be right.
I had kinda developed the idea that liberals were the "bad guys."
… raised Republican. Naturally, I believed climate change is leftist bullshit.
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