Posted on 10/01/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by oblomov
Last week’s People's Climate March drew 400,000 people onto the streets of Manhattan and a great deal of international attention to a subject of dire urgency. But some were skeptical about the event’s overall significance. “The march slogan was, ‘to change everything, we need everyone,’ which is telling, because it won’t change everything, because it didn’t include everyone,” wrote David Roberts of Grist. “Specifically, it won’t change American politics because it didn’t include conservatives.” True enough.
If there weren’t such a stark divide between American conservatives and almost everyone else on the question of the existence and importance of climate change — a divide that can approach 40 points on some polling questions — the political situation would be very different. So if any progress on climate change is going to be made through the American political system — apart from executive orders by Democratic presidents — it is going to have to somehow involve convincing a lot of conservatives that yes, climate change is a threat to civilization.
How do you do that? The answer has more to do with psychology than politics.
The practice of tailoring a political message to a particular group is commonplace, of course. But the climate activist community has broadly failed to understand just how differently conservatives and liberals see the world on certain issues, and, as a result, just how radically different messages targeting conservatives should look.
Related Stories How to Win Your Next Political Argument Awareness Is Overrated “Although climate scientists update, appropriately, their models after ten years of evidence, climate-science communicators haven’t,” said Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale who studies how people respond to information challenging their beliefs. Luckily, social and political psychologists are on the case.
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The crap is taught as dogma in schools.
I’ve always taken it seriously, in the winter I wear a coat and in the summer I wear shorts.
Here is how we respond. You can take your “nudge” and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Gawd these people are arrogant boobs.
Just make “climate change denier” a DSM 4 diagnosis, and place “patient” in a re-education “institution”. Soviets did it all the time; no trial needed.
Someone’s paying for these ‘protests’ and strangely enough - it’s not democrats. You might be right on this one... it’s my fear also.
How about trying science?
Psychologists are psycho’s.
Yes, let’s put our heads together, and figure out how to do that! The sun MUST be punished!
One more reason I refer to public schools as child abuse centers.
I was done with Global Warming the first time I heard the phrase, ‘The science is settled’. That’s just nonsense. You can’t end the debate before the debate has even started...unless you’re a charlatan.
I’m a conservative and I believe in climate change....
You would have to be a moron not to know the climate changes over thousand of years....
AGW is a religion....I already believe in a savior....
No amount of brain washing can convince me AGW is real science ....
Just as when Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB and sending Soviet dissidents to “mental hospitals”.
I have been witnessing the “climate”, for over 50 years, and have my own conclusions, which are a moot point.
All they can do is screw with people's lives.
This is journalism?!
Seriously?
You know, there was a time when "most people" believed the earth was flat...
All you can do with any historical science is ask the plausibility question: "Which one fits the best, with the fewest caveats and conditional factors?"
Yeahyeahyeah. “It isn’t the science, it’s the presentation.” No, it IS the science.
Yup, good old social psychology that got me so flaming mad my textbook was irrepairable. Anyway, commie propaganda at its best and
VALLERI JARRETT majored in psych (bets it was in social psych?)
Guess how they convinced the world to recycle??? Taught in the books, ladies and gents. I do hate littering and waste so, ok. But i’m a moderate in most things. If recycling is unhealthy to people in any way, do they check?, then forget it.
The problem with global warming...the science just isn’t there like my warm winter clothes.
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