The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate

theregister.co.uk  h/t Behind the Black

excerpts:

• A US government-funded survey has found that Americans with higher levels of scientific and mathematical knowledge are more sceptical regarding the dangers of climate change than their more poorly educated fellow citizens.
• in a just-published US National Science Foundation-funded study, participants' science knowledge and numeracy was tested and compared with levels of concern regarding climate change. The soft-studies profs were amazed, however, to find that as one moves up the scale of science knowledge and numeracy, people become more sceptical, not less.
• Thus it is, according to the assembled profs, that the US government should seek to fund a communication strategy on climate change which is not focused on sound scientific information.

Comment:

Whoa!  An appeal for action based upon scientific information is to be made on the basis of a lack of scientific information!  If this isn't Orwellian doublespeak, there ain't no such thing.

The United States has been said to be the Nation of the Enlightenment.   If so, what happens to it if these new Orwellians start acting like a reincarnation of the Grand Inquisition?  The same thing that happened to Galileo, that's what.

Global Warming theory is being admitted here as being nothing more than a new religion.  But it is being sold as a scientific idea.  That should be repellent, but who knows these days.