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Climate change beliefs must not be allowed to trump science
2016-01-31 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LancasterOnline: A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures, and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic, and he fails to see your point. So said Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger in the 1950s. Pre-existing beliefs can slant our thinking and taint what we believe to be our most impartial and logical conclusions. This is called motivational reasoning. It helps to explain why we find folks so opposed over matters in...
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Your beliefs on global warming may depend on where you're from
2015-04-06 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Residents of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Corvallis, Oregon, are far more likely to believe that global warming is happening than people in Casper, Wyoming, and Dothan, Alabama. These findings can be explored in a new study and interactive tool that, for the first time, allows users to drill down from national-level to congressional-district level survey results on global warming beliefs. The study estimates that a majority of adults in all states believe that global warming is happening, ranging...
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Governor of Indiana signs amended beliefs measure
2015-04-03 14:48:49| Agriculture - Topix.net
Indiana's Republican-led Legislature on Thursday passed changes to a divisive measure billed as a religious-freedom law, to make clear that it does not permit discrimination against gays, and Gov. Mike Pence quickly approved the revisions. The law enacted last week in Indiana, and the prospect of similar measures in other states, set off a national uproar, as critics said it was an anti-gay statute in the guise of religious freedom.
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Curbing Global Warming Aligns With American Christians' Beliefs, Study Says
2015-04-01 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A majority of American Christians think global warming is happening and that the government should support research and tax policies that promote renewable sources of energy and energy efficiency, according to a new report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. Among Catholics, 69 percent think global warming is happening, which is a higher percentage than Americans overall (63 percent). A majority of non-evangelical Protestants 62 percent also think global warming is occurring,...
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Inhofe's climate-change beliefs are 'cruel joke'
2015-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Frederick News-Post: Ranking Republicans in the U.S. Senate are set to take over chairmanships of a number of important committees. Not least among them is Environment and Public Works. Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, a member of that committee, said in a recent Washington Post story, The biggest denier of all is chairman of the Environment Committee thats a cruel joke. She was referring to the incoming committee chairman, Republican Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, and the denial she alluded to involves...
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