Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change—often
along political lines. Democrats or liberals tend to believe that human activity is a primary …

Appreciable advances have been made in recent years in raising climate change
awareness and enhancing support for climate and energy policies. There also has been …

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public
sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of …

Recent research in decision science identifies politically motivated reasoning as the source
of persistent public conflict over policy-relevant facts. This paper presents a basic conceptual …

Epistemologists often work with idealized pictures of what inquirers are like, how they
interact with each other, and the social institutions and environment in which they do the …

Ocean carbon dioxide removal (OCDR) is rapidly attracting interest, as climate change is
putting ecosystems at risk and endangering human communities globally. Due to the …

People have a tendency to disregard information that contradicts their partisan or ideological
identity. This inclination can become especially striking when citizens reject notions that …

The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate
destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem …

Of this article's seven experiments, the first five demonstrate that virtually no Americans know
the basic global warming mechanism. Fortunately, Experiments 2–5 found that 2–45 min of …

Highlights•Opinions about climate change have polarized based on partisan orientation.•A
preeminent explanation for climate change attitude polarization is directional motivated …