Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?

Kirk, Karin
http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/04/changing-minds-on-a-changing-climate/
http://www.desmogblog.com/2017/04/26/what-makes-climate-science-deniers-change-their-minds-reddit-confessional-gave-us-rare-insight
Date Written:  2017-04-26
Publisher:  Desmog
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20652

Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.

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About a third of the commenters started off their post by discussing underlying reasons they originally rejected climate science. Of those, the most common involved beliefs of their family members.

I denied it through middle school, mostly because my family rigorously shot it down whenever it was remotely mentioned.

I grew up actively and obnoxiously denying climate change because my dad told me it wasn't real.

The Reddit commenters pointed to partisan and tribal values as the second most-common basis of their earlier climate change denial.

I never really questioned my opinion on climate change for a while; a lot of people I know denied climate change, so I figured they must be right.

I had kinda developed the idea that liberals were the "bad guys."

… raised Republican. Naturally, I believed climate change is leftist bullshit.

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