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

McCright, Aaron M.; Dunlap, Riley E.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.06.003

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“…Taking the tendency to vote for the green party as a proxy for environmental attitude, our estimates confirm the results documented in the literature: environmental attitude is widely found to be positively correlated with the perception of risks resulting from climate change (Leiserowitz, 2006;McCright and Dunlap, 2011;Poortinga et al, 2011; Note: Standard errors are clustered at the household level and are reported in parentheses. ** and * denote statistical significance at the 1 % and 5 % level, respectively.…”

Section: Correlates Of Risk Perceptionssupporting

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Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Frondel

Simora

Sommer

2017

Ecological Economics

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Section: Correlates Of Risk Perceptionssupporting

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Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Frondel

Simora

Sommer

2017

Ecological Economics

101

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“…Demographically, the findings revealed Hypocrites were younger, liberal (possibly Democratic) females who are highly educated. These results are comparable to similar studies focused on environmental conservation; the results also suggested that focusing studies specifically on climate change does not alter the target Hypocrite audience and that future educational initiatives can be targeted towards this audience (Liu et al, 2014;McCright & Dunlap, 2011;Milfont, Milojeve, Greaves, & Sibley, 2015).…”

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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Communicate with Hypocrites About Water Conservation and Climate Change

Taylor¹,

Lamm²,

Lundy³

2017

Journal of Applied Communications

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“…These findings give cause for hope at a critical time, contrasting with the pessimistic implications of research suggesting people's motivation to act on climate change are limited by ideology [1][2][3] , or relies on widespread personal experience of climate change 28,29 (when it may be too late to mitigate). Communicating about co-benefits of addressing climate change can provide another way to engage and motivate the public to act, and to support government action, that do not depend on being convinced or concerned about climate change.…”

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“…Communicating climate change more clearly is failing to convert skeptics into believers 10 , and climate change is slipping down the list of public priorities in many countries 5,6 . This is strongly related to political ideology [1][2][3][4] , giving cause for pessimism -if addressing climate change requires a substantial number of people to shift their basic political ideologies, the prospect for success is bleak.…”

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“…Meta-regression 22 tested explanations for this variation. We included three country-level predictors on theoretical grounds: (a) climate change contributions (greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy) 23 , indexing responsibility/culpability for climate change; (b) country wealth (GDP per capita), which has been associated with pro-environmental behavior 24,25 ; and (c) the proportion of females in each sample, as women are typically more pro-environmental 3,26,27 . The basic correlations for student samples were used to maximize the number of countries analyzed.…”

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Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world

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

Cited by 950 publications

References 35 publications

Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Using Cognitive Dissonance to Communicate with Hypocrites About Water Conservation and Climate Change

Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world

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