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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102243
	Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum
	Haltinner K.; Sarathchandra D.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	9593780
卷号	68
英文摘要	In this paper we present an empirically driven language to discuss climate change skepticism. We conceptualize skeptic/skepticism as an umbrella term that includes those who actively reject climate science and those who are uncertain about climate change. We propose four categories for better empirical analysis of climate skepticism: epistemic deniers, epistemic doubters (borrowing from Capstick and Pidgeon 2014), attribution deniers, and attribution doubters (borrowing from Rahmstorf 2004). Using a unique dataset of surveys (n = 1000) and interviews (n = 33) with residents of the U.S. Pacific Northwest who are skeptical about climate change, we compare those four groups across several predictors and demographic variables (age, race, gender, political ideology, religiosity, income, education, and level of trust in science) and outcome variables (environmental concern, policy support, and conspiracy ideation (adherence to the belief that climate change is a “hoax”). We demonstrate the importance of considering attitudinal uncertainty in the analysis of climate skepticism by providing evidence for the presence of a continuum of thought wherein epistemic deniers and attribution doubters make up the two ends of a continuum with more complicated distinctions between epistemic doubters and attribution deniers. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Climate skepticism Perceptions of climate change Uncertainty and climate change
英文关键词	climate change; demographic transition; demographic trend; public attitude; uncertainty analysis; Pacific Northwest
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205509
作者单位	Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Idaho, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Haltinner K.,Sarathchandra D.. Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum[J],2021,68.
APA	Haltinner K.,&Sarathchandra D..(2021).Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum.Global Environmental Change,68.
MLA	Haltinner K.,et al."Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum".Global Environmental Change 68(2021).