DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102243
论文题名: Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum
作者: Haltinner K. ; Sarathchandra D.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2021
卷: 68 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Climate skepticism
; Perceptions of climate change
; Uncertainty and climate change
英文关键词: climate change
; demographic transition
; demographic trend
; public attitude
; uncertainty analysis
; Pacific Northwest
英文摘要: In this paper we present an empirically driven language to discuss climate change skepticism. We conceptualize skeptic/skepticism as an umbrella term that includes those who actively reject climate science and those who are uncertain about climate change. We propose four categories for better empirical analysis of climate skepticism: epistemic deniers, epistemic doubters (borrowing from Capstick and Pidgeon 2014), attribution deniers, and attribution doubters (borrowing from Rahmstorf 2004). Using a unique dataset of surveys (n = 1000) and interviews (n = 33) with residents of the U.S. Pacific Northwest who are skeptical about climate change, we compare those four groups across several predictors and demographic variables (age, race, gender, political ideology, religiosity, income, education, and level of trust in science) and outcome variables (environmental concern, policy support, and conspiracy ideation (adherence to the belief that climate change is a “hoax”). We demonstrate the importance of considering attitudinal uncertainty in the analysis of climate skepticism by providing evidence for the presence of a continuum of thought wherein epistemic deniers and attribution doubters make up the two ends of a continuum with more complicated distinctions between epistemic doubters and attribution deniers. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168295
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作者单位: Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Idaho, United States
Recommended Citation:
Haltinner K.,Sarathchandra D.. Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum[J]. Global Environmental Change,2021-01-01,68