The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: Limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults (N = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly less likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones.
So skeptics of global warming aren't stupid and uneducated, eh? And I bet very few of the literate and numerate people in the study who are skeptics have ever received any money from an oil company.
Is this science settled? Or shall it be subject to scrutiny and revision?
Anyway. It is rough news for the crowd that likes to view deniers as the sloped-forehead crowd.
