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Maybe climate science news makes a difference?

One thing we've learned about publicly controversial topics like climate change and evolution: the controversy won’t be solved by simply providing more information about the science. Cultural divides underlie these issues, and battle lines have been drawn for reasons that have little to do with facts. Information is often just fodder for selective hearing and motivated reasoning—biased analysis that twists incoming information to favor our pre-existing opinions. This is made apparent in many studies and experiments, and it’s normally assumed that science news (like you’re reading right now) is really no different from other kinds of information in this regard (meaning it's interpreted through cultural biases).

 

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