Think Again

a range of views on the actual effects
: Carolyn Gramling, “Climate Models Agree Things Will Get
Bad. Capturing Just How Bad Is Tricky,” ScienceNews, January 7, 2020,
www.sciencenews.org/article/why-climate-change-models-disagree-earth-worst-case-scenarios
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people are more motivated to act
: Paul G. Bain et al., “Co-Benefits of Addressing Climate Change
Can Motivate Action around the World,” Nature Climate Change 6 (2016): 154–57.
preserving the purity of nature
: Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, “The Moral Roots of
Environmental Attitudes,” Psychological Science 24 (2013): 56–62.
protecting the planet as an act of patriotism
: Christopher Wolsko, Hector Ariceaga, and Jesse
Seiden, “Red, White, and Blue Enough to Be Green: Effects of Moral Framing on Climate
Change Attitudes and Conservation Behaviors,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 65
(2016): 7–19.
people will ignore or even deny
: Troy H. Campbell and Aaron C. Kay, “Solution Aversion: On the
Relation between Ideology and Motivated Disbelief,” Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology 107 (2014): 809–24.
examples of headlines
: Mary Annaise Heglar, “I Work in the Environmental Movement. I Don’t
Care If You Recycle,” Vox, May 28, 2019, 
www.vox.com/the-

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highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal
; Bob Berwyn, “Can Planting
a Trillion Trees Stop Climate Change? Scientists Say It’s a Lot More Complicated,” Inside
Climate News, May 27, 2020, 
insideclimatenews.org/news/26052020/trillion-trees-climate-
change?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrb6n1qHF6gIVFInICh2kggWNEAAYAiAAEgI-sPD_BwE
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when news reports about science included caveats
: Lewis Bott et al., “Caveats in Science-Based
News Stories Communicate Caution without Lowering Interest,” Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Applied 25 (2019): 517–42.