Clarifying anti-reflexivity: conservative opposition to impact science and scientific evidence

Resource Author: Riley Dunlap

An analysis of polling to determine whether the public responds better to the term ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’.
An analysis of American ideological and political polarization over climate change, which finds that liberals and Democrats are more likely to report beliefs consistent with the scientific consensus and express personal concern about global warming than conservatives and Republicans.
An examination of the links between books that deny anthropogenic global warming and conservative think tanks, as well as an analysis of the extent to which denial books lack peer review and are produced by individuals without scientific training.