It strikes me as a weird coincidence that much of the research about climate change and "cultural cognition" was published precisely in the years when climate was being polarized by dark money groups spearheaded by the Kochs.

Funny how an historically recent polarization was naturalized or normalized by a supposedly scientific account of how political commitments always already determine how we process information.

Also interesting how often the academic narratives that come to dominate popular thinking about climate track the ideologies that maintain the fossil-fuel status quo.

Excellent critique of some of the assumptions underlying the "cultural cognition" model here, by @Sander_vdLinden @MaibachEd @johnfocook @ecotone2 @mor528 @STWorg @DecisionLab @elkeweber https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3323

Also this, by @STWorg, section 4.2.1, summarizes the research showing the benefits of providing factual information in climate communication. (This paper is also a great overview of the current state of the climate comms field—highly recommended!)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3693773