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Global warming skeptics as knowledgeable about science as climate change believers, study says
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat May 28, 2012 09:48pm |
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| Category | Study |
| Author | Maxim Lott |
| Media | TV News - FOX News |
| News Date | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 03:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Are global warming skeptics anti-science? Or just ignorant about science?
Maybe neither. A study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that people who are not that worried about the effects of global warming tend to have a slightly higher level of scientific knowledge than those who are worried, as determined by their answers to questions like:
"Electrons are smaller than atoms -- true or false?”
"How long does it take the Earth to go around the Sun? One day, one month, or one year?"
“Lasers work by focusing sound waves -- true or false?”
The quiz, containing 22 questions about both science and statistics, was given to 1,540 representative Americans. Respondents who were relatively less worried about global warming got 57 percent of them right, on average, just barely outscoring those whose who saw global warming as a bigger threat. They got 56 percent of the questions correct. |
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