September 17, 2024

John Kane on the Link Between Religious Beliefs and Climate Change Attitudes in the U.S.

John Kane, Clinical Associate Professor at CGA, and Samuel L. Perry, Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Oklahoma, investigate whether religious beliefs affects people's perceived threat of climate change in recent article published in Nature. Their article, "Belief in divine (versus human) control of earth affects perceived threat of climate change," engages in observational and experimental data to analyze whether beliefs in divine (versus human) control over Earth’s climate provokes skepticism toward scientific claims that anthropogenic behavior is the root cause of environmental crises. This study established a "causal link between a religious belief and climate change attitudes in the U.S. public."

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