Why Conservative White Males Are More Likely To Be Climate Skeptics

Scientific American ^ | 10/5/2011 | By Julia Pyper and ClimateWire

[Atlas Sneezed]

1. I received a rigorous scientific education where I learned to think for myself.

2. A decade later, I applied that capability to politics, when I learned (from author Michael Fumento) that most of the environmental movement (and by association the MSM and liberal politicians) was based on verifiable scientific lies that were obvious to the well-informed.

3. The scientific education that enabled me to be a conservative has also led me to question most of everything coming from the climate change advocates.

(One of the nifty things I learned in my education is that correlation isn’t causation. My being conservative didn’t make me question climate change. My being SMART made be BOTH).

[glorgau]

I used to read Scientific American until they got too political.

Now they say that being a climate change denier is akin to being a racist.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

As it was also part of their “research”, they noted that LIBERAL white males are the biggest advocates of MMGW theories.

From this it can be concluded that white males do far more science than other racial groups, as well as women. Which has long been pretty well established, so is no breakthrough.

Second, from their results it can be divined that LIBERAL white males are far more likely to embrace, without question, ideas promulgated by other LIBERAL white males. Especially if those ideas might eventually result in financial gain and political power to them and their kind.

And that CONSERVATIVE white males are far more questioning of broad assertions based on tenuous and shifting evidence, speculative theories, and questionable computer models, as well as demands for expensive, uncertain, and authoritarian changes in public policy based on such dubious evidence.

Likewise, their study shows that LIBERAL white males are far more likely to develop *emotional* investments in questionable theories, *and* demands for massive changes to public policy, and to defend these things in the face of all conflicting evidence, no matter how objective and verifiable.

In other words, their study reaches the conclusion that LIBERAL white males are poor scientists.

[rdcbn]

Nothing new here

Anthropogenic Climate Change is modern day Lysenkoism.

Of course, any Soviet scientist who criticized Lysenko's theories of Marxist Agriculture got sent to the Gulags by Stalin.

[MortMan]

And it certainly doesn’t mean anything that he calls doubters “denialists”, either!

[Lazlo in PA]

"Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States,"

Yeah. That title isn't biased and inflammatory. This discredited academic hack can screw. The title should read: "White Guys: They Get That Global Warming Is A Scam".

[the invisib1e hand]

I could be wrong, but I think that the highest levels of education are found among conservative white males.

well, whatever on "education."

I know this, sane people are conservative (no, I did NOT say "republican.")

[cardinal4]

Idiot. (not the poster)No denies the climate’s tendency to change properties; the fossil record alone bears this out. What I, a “conservative, white male”, deny, is a left wing, radical, brain dead, reaction to something that WE should probably be adjusting to instead of the planet..

[allmendream]

Indeed.

Much like the clergy refusing to look through the telescope of Galileo to see that the moons of Jupiter did not orbit the Earth - but orbited Jupiter; a cadre of Soviet scientists set up a display “for students” they said, that clearly showed chromosomes under the microscope. They asked Lysenko (who said chromosomes did not exist) to look under the microscope - and he refused!

They don’t want to argue the facts - they want to question our motivations, our qualifications, our intelligence, etc.

If they had the power they would no doubt want to exile us to Siberia or shoot us - as the Soviets did to anyone who espoused Darwin’s theory or modern Genetics.

[Thommas]

The white male effect could stem from the notion that, historically, white males have faced fewer obstacles in life, said McCright.

What the he11 kind of "scientific" postulation is this?

Conservative white males' motivation to ignore a certain risk -- the risk of climate change in this case -- therefore, has to do with defending the status of their identity..

This group think of "conservative males" can be equally attributable to the tribal, mental defenses of Marxists, college professors, Democratics, union thugs, and all progressives. In short, this premise is simple conjecture and self projection.

Taylor also argues that the paper's claim that "the most prominent denialists are conservative white males," overlooks the other side of the political equation. "Here's a news flash: The most prominent alarmists are liberal white males. So clearly race and gender has nothing to do with prominent alarmism or skepticism," he said.

So there are views that contradict the subject matter of this article.

"If you are advocating for climate legislation is helps to understand your opponents. Or if you have opponents, it's good to understand them to effectively engage with them."..

So, here is the gist of the article. If you want to propose legislation that will needlessly cripple the economy for generations to come, know that true conservatives will stand in your way.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: This article shamelessly conflates climate change with Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change. ::

A correction is on order. See my tag-line.

[Hodar]

As a recent study shows, conservative white males are less likely to believe in climate change.

We also don't believe in Ghosts, Santa Clause, Easter Bunny and other fables. As a group, we are among the most educated on the planet, we also have created nearly every meaningful invention since the dawn of man. Computers, space flight, to medical, to the printing press.

Damn those white European males.

[Hodar]

As a recent study shows, conservative white males are less likely to believe in climate change.

We also don't believe in Ghosts, Santa Clause, Easter Bunny and other fables. As a group, we are among the most educated on the planet, we also have created nearly every meaningful invention since the dawn of man. Computers, space flight, to medical, to the printing press.

Damn those white European males.

[Justa]

Cheer up. We should have another fun, colder-than-normal winter this year in which we can watch the AGW mental gymnastics once again. Who knows maybe we’ll be blamed for the weather this year?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yeah, and if it wasn’t for those conservative white males you’d be living under totalitarianism.

If you’d be even living at all.

[JaguarXKE]

Not to mention conservatives have about 20 IQ points on liberals on average.

[GraceG]

It isn’t the DNA it is the Culture.

I blame the renaissance for helping with elevating mankind, see “5,000 year leap”.

[JPG]

It must really suck when they realize that all of their AGW propaganda and scaremongering doesn't work anymore.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

Braman says a similar effect reveals itself amongst progressives when it comes to concerns about nuclear power, for instance. In the Yale Law School "Second National Risk & Culture Study" researchers found that despite expert opinions espousing the relative safety of certain forms of nuclear energy, progressives are still concerned about it, Braman said.

I had not thought about it before, but there is a sort of symmetry to both sorts of opinions.

[JaguarXKE]

If we can assume that most “dittoheads” are conservative, then you speak fact. The Kaiser Family Foundataion and Harvard did a study of Rush Limbaugh “dittoheads” a few years ago and found that they were more educated, and more politically engaged than the average American. I have that study cut out from the paper (I think it was WAPO) and stuck in a file somewhere.