Endorsement of scientific inquiry promotes better evaluation of climate policy evidence.

IF 4.8 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Climatic Change Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-19 DOI:10.1007/s10584-023-03535-y

Jessica E Hughes, James D Sauer, Aaron Drummond, Laura E Brumby, Matthew A Palmer

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Abstract

Public and scientific consensus about climate change do not align. Problematically, higher scientific knowledge has been associated with lower acceptance of climate information among those with more conservative socio-political ideologies. Positive attitudes towards science can attenuate this effect. We investigated the association between endorsement of scientific inquiry (ESI) and decision-making with scientific evidence about climate policies. Participants rated support for 16 climate policies accompanied by weaker or stronger evidence. In study 1 (N = 503), higher ESI was associated with greater discernment between strongly and weakly evidenced climate policies, irrespective of worldview. In studies 2 (N = 402) and 3 (N = 600), an ESI intervention improved discrimination, and, in study 3, increased ESI specifically for hierarchical/individualistic participants. Unlike ESI, the link between scientific knowledge and evaluation of evidence was influenced by worldview. Increasing ESI might improve the evaluation of scientific evidence and increase public support for evidence-based climate policies.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10584-023-03535-y.

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对科学调查的认可促进了对气候政策证据的更好评估。

公众和科学界对气候变化的共识并不一致。有问题的是，科学知识越高，社会政治意识形态越保守的人对气候信息的接受度越低。对科学的积极态度可以减弱这种影响。我们调查了支持科学调查（ESI）与气候政策科学证据决策之间的关系。参与者对16项气候政策的支持程度进行了评分，同时给出了较弱或较强的证据。在研究1（N = 503），无论世界观如何，更高的ESI与有力和薄弱的气候政策之间的更大区分有关。在研究2中（N = 402）和3（N = 600），ESI干预改善了歧视，并且在研究3中，增加了专门针对等级/个人主义参与者的ESI。与ESI不同，科学知识和证据评估之间的联系受到世界观的影响。增加ESI可能会改善对科学证据的评估，并增加公众对循证气候政策的支持。补充信息：在线版本包含补充材料，可访问10.1007/s10584-023-03535-y。

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Climatic Change 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

4.20%

发文量

180

审稿时长

7.5 months

期刊介绍： Climatic Change is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change - its descriptions, causes, implications and interactions among these. The purpose of the journal is to provide a means of exchange among those working in different disciplines on problems related to climatic variations. This means that authors have an opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate-related disciplines and to interested non-disciplinarians, as well as to report on research in which the originality is in the combinations of (not necessarily original) work from several disciplines. The journal also includes vigorous editorial and book review sections.