{"id":267,"date":"2008-09-24T08:07:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-09-24T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T14:10:25","slug":"party-differences-on-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/09\/24\/party-differences-on-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"party differences on global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ScienceNews.com<\/a> reports today on a recent sociological investigation into attitudes about global warming. Pollsters from Gallup asked groups of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents about whether they believe that ‘global warming poses a serious threat to the American way of life.’ The emerging results suggest that over the last 10 years, Democrats have increasingly said ‘yes’ (49% today as opposed to 31% ten years ago) while the share of Republicans saying ‘yes’ has grown more slowly (now 26% and previously 20%).<\/p>\n

Science News<\/a> reports:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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… While virtually half of Democrats currently view global warming as posing a serious threat within their lifetimes, only one-quarter of Republicans feel similarly, report\u00a0Oklahoma State University\u00a0sociologist\u00a0Riley E. Dunlap\u00a0(who\u2019s also a Scholar for the Environment at the Gallup Organization) and sociologist\u00a0Aaron M. McCright\u00a0of\u00a0Lyman Briggs Collegeand\u00a0Michigan State University.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pair argue that the polling data suggest Republicans and Democrats are becoming \u201cmore ideologically polarized,\u201d at least on the issue of global warming. They attribute the increasingly divergent views on this issue to \u201cparty sorting\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u2014<\/span>\u00a0that is, people choosing a party on the basis of its general views on this issue, or people within a party increasingly assuming the views on this issue that are espoused by leaders of their party.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dunlap and McCright find that the tight correlation between party affiliation and attitudes about climate hold even after accounting statistically for other potentially confounding demographic factors such as gender, age, race, income and education. Moreover, they observe, throughout the past decade, \u201cRepublicans and Democrats who believe they understand global warming reasonably well [have been holding] more divergent views compared with their presumably less-informed counterparts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The bottom line? Democrats’ views about global warming have reflected scientific conclusions on climate change, while Republicans dismiss the scientific assessments.<\/p>\n

Read on<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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