Granted, the study is rather limited and only scratches the surface
(Fox News) Â Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science?
Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychologyby 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.
What kinds of questions?
One question, for instance, asked if scientists believe that warming would “increase the risk of skin cancer.†Skeptics were more likely than believers to know that is false.
Skeptics were also more likely to correctly say that if the North Pole icecap melted, global sea levels would not rise. One can test this with a glass of water and an ice cube – the water level will not change after the ice melts. Antarctic ice melting, however, would increase sea levels because much of it rests on land.
And, of course
Liberals were more likely to correctly answer questions like: “What gas do most scientists believe causes temperatures to rise?†The correct answer is carbon dioxide.
Of course, that is wrong, since the #1 greenhouse gas is water vapor. Warmists are mostly science illiterate, relying more on talking points, feelings, and computer models. They wouldn’t know the scientific model if it reached up and bit them in the posterior.
“It’s easy to believe in the religion of global warming. It takes critical thinking skills to question it,†Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.
Correct.
