Global warming skeptics know more about climate science

Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science?

 

Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychology by Yale Professor Dan Kahan. He finds that skeptics score about the same (in fact slightly better) on climate science questions.

 

The study asked 2,000 respondents nine questions about where they thought scientists stand on climate science.

 

On average, skeptics got about 4.5 questions correct, whereas manmade warming believers got about 4 questions right.

 

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