Why Are People Climate Change Deniers?

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Date of Publication: February 1

Year of Publication: 2024

Publication City: Bonn, Germany

Publisher: University of Bonn

Author(s): Lasse S. Stötzer, Florian Zimmermann

University of Bonn and IZA study reveals unexpected results.

Do climate change deniers bend the facts to avoid having to modify their environmentally harmful behavior? Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) ran an online experiment involving 4,000 US adults and found no evidence to support this idea. The authors of the study were themselves surprised by the results. Whether they are good or bad news for the fight against global heating remains to be seen. The study is being published in the journal “Nature Climate Change.”

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