{"id":46179,"date":"2012-04-19T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46179"},"modified":"2012-04-17T02:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T07:42:25","slug":"its-not-so-hot-being-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/19\/its-not-so-hot-being-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not So Hot Being a Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hot enough for you?\u00a0 Your answer might depend on who you\u2019re voting for.<\/p>\n

World views affect not just how we interpret what we see; these views influence what we actually experience.\u00a0 That was the point of the previous post.<\/p>\n

Do people who reject the idea global warming perceive the weather as being cooler?\u00a0 Gallup just published the results of a poll<\/a>\u00a0that asked people if this winter was warmer than usual. Unfortunately, Gallup asked only for political affiliation, but it can stand as a rough proxy for ideas about global warming.\u00a0 So the data are suggestive, not conclusive. But for what it\u2019s worth, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say yes, it\u2019s been a warm winter.\u00a0 Some of the difference can be attributed to geography (Democrats living in places that had a much warmer winter than usual). But I suspect that at least part of the 11-point difference is political.<\/p>\n

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Republicans reject the idea that the world is getting warmer — that\u2019s a question of science — but they also experience their own immediate environment as cooler, which is a matter of perception.<\/p>\n

As the graph shows, Gallup then asked those who did think that the winter was unusually warm what they thought the cause was — global warming or just normal variation..\u00a0 As you might expect, political affiliation made a difference.\u00a0\u00a0 Democrats were more than twice as likely as Republicans to cite global warming as the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog. Hot enough for you?\u00a0 Your answer might depend on who you\u2019re voting for. World views affect not just how we interpret what we see; these views influence what we actually experience.\u00a0 That was the point of the previous post. Do people who reject the idea global warming perceive the weather as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2123,85,693],"class_list":["post-46179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environmentnature","tag-politics","tag-public-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46185,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46179\/revisions\/46185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}