Main research question/ objective. This article tries to understand whether the conservative white males in the U.S are more likely to express climate change denial compared to other adults.
As previous empirical studies point out, firstly, the conservative white males as a group makes up the most prominent portion of the climate change denialists “within the ranks of elites”, besides non-whites, females, and liberal political view holders are more likely to “express concern about global warming” than the conservatives, white, and males, respectively. Based on these two general trends, this article tries to testify the intersectional impact of “political ideology, race, and gender” and use five self-reported understanding of global warming …show more content…
This finding further supports both the identity-protective cognition and the system-justifying tendencies thesis. Overall, as the author states in the article that “there is a positive correlation between self-reported understanding and climate change denial” and furthermore “climate change denial seems to have become almost an essential component of conservative white male identity” based on the notions from the identity-protective cognition. The multivariate logistic regression models shows the pattern that “non-whites are more likely than are whites to deny that a scientific consensus exists and that white are more likely than are non-whites to believe that the media exaggerates the seriousness of global warming” while race plays no role in predicting the other three indicator of climate change …show more content…
The five indicators of attitudes over climate change denials are examples in this study case, while there are many other similar indicators can be used as the measurement for climate change attitudes, these five were chosen but very few or no explanation was provided.
Compared to the previous studies of the similar focus, this study, as the author mentioned in the beginning, is outstanding because it explicitly examined the climate change denial not only between conservative white males and the other public (the intra-groups comparison), but also between the “confident” conservative white males and the “less knowledgeable” conservative white males (the inter-group comparison), which can be regarded as a highlight.
As the author said in the end, this study only focus on the U.S. society and population using an American national survey, therefore further studies using different samples and focusing on different nations or locations is possible and
As previous empirical studies point out, firstly, the conservative white males as a group makes up the most prominent portion of the climate change denialists “within the ranks of elites”, besides non-whites, females, and liberal political view holders are more likely to “express concern about global warming” than the conservatives, white, and males, respectively. Based on these two general trends, this article tries to testify the intersectional impact of “political ideology, race, and gender” and use five self-reported understanding of global warming …show more content…
This finding further supports both the identity-protective cognition and the system-justifying tendencies thesis. Overall, as the author states in the article that “there is a positive correlation between self-reported understanding and climate change denial” and furthermore “climate change denial seems to have become almost an essential component of conservative white male identity” based on the notions from the identity-protective cognition. The multivariate logistic regression models shows the pattern that “non-whites are more likely than are whites to deny that a scientific consensus exists and that white are more likely than are non-whites to believe that the media exaggerates the seriousness of global warming” while race plays no role in predicting the other three indicator of climate change …show more content…
The five indicators of attitudes over climate change denials are examples in this study case, while there are many other similar indicators can be used as the measurement for climate change attitudes, these five were chosen but very few or no explanation was provided.
Compared to the previous studies of the similar focus, this study, as the author mentioned in the beginning, is outstanding because it explicitly examined the climate change denial not only between conservative white males and the other public (the intra-groups comparison), but also between the “confident” conservative white males and the “less knowledgeable” conservative white males (the inter-group comparison), which can be regarded as a highlight.
As the author said in the end, this study only focus on the U.S. society and population using an American national survey, therefore further studies using different samples and focusing on different nations or locations is possible and