Open AccessNonscientists Struggle to Separate Climate Fact from Fiction
Author(s) -
Kimberly Cartier
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo142608
Subject(s) - environmental ethics , philosophy
People were much worse at identifying false statements about climate change than about general science, and they were overly confident in their answers.