[HTML][HTML] Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming

J Cook, N Oreskes, PT Doran… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of
publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this …

Inoculating the public against misinformation about climate change

S Van der Linden, A Leiserowitz, S Rosenthal… - Global …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Effectively addressing climate change requires significant changes in individual and
collective human behavior and decision‐making. Yet, in light of the increasing politicization …

[HTML][HTML] Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence

J Cook, S Lewandowsky, UKH Ecker - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public
misconceptions about climate change can lead to lowered acceptance of the reality of …

[HTML][HTML] The scientific consensus on climate change as a gateway belief: Experimental evidence

SL Van der Linden, AA Leiserowitz, GD Feinberg… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
There is currently widespread public misunderstanding about the degree of scientific
consensus on human-caused climate change, both in the US as well as internationally …

A conceptual critique of the cultural cognition thesis

S Van der Linden - Science Communication, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
I offer a critique of the cultural cognition thesis. I argue that cultural cognition is not a theory
about culture or cognition per se; rather, it is a thesis that aims to explain why specific …

“A statistically representative climate change debate”: Satirical television news, scientific consensus, and public perceptions of global warming

PR Brewer, J McKnight - Atlantic Journal of Communication, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Satirical television news programs provide the public with potential sources of information
about climate change. This study uses a segment from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver …

Probing into the sources of ignorance: science teachers' practices of constructing arguments or rebuttals to denialism of climate change

A Sezen-Barrie, N Shea, JH Borman - Environmental Education …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study focuses on the nature of teachers' arguments for and rebuttals to 10 denial
theories about anthropogenic climate change that are most commonly encountered in the …

The role of trust in communicating scientific consensus and the environmental benefits of genetically engineered crops: Experimental evidence of a backfire effect

B Suldovsky, H Akin - Environmental Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Genetically engineered (GE) crops are likely to be one solution when it comes to balancing
the needs of a growing human population and changing climate. Recent data suggest that …

Public reception of climate science: Coherence, reliability, and independence

U Hahn, AJL Harris, A Corner - Topics in cognitive science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Possible measures to mitigate climate change require global collective actions whose
impacts will be felt by many, if not all. Implementing such actions requires successful …

The ethics of belief, cognition, and climate change pseudoskepticism: Implications for public discourse

L Torcello - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between knowledge, belief, and ethics is an inaugural theme in philosophy;
more recently, under the title “ethics of belief” philosophers have worked to develop the …