Just when you thought the climate debate couldn't get any more divisive, along comes an academic paper which looks into the "effects of gender on climate change knowledge and concern in the American public".
The headline conclusion? "Women exhibit slightly higher levels of both than do their male counterparts."
Aaron M McCright, an associate professor at Michigan State University's Department of Sociology whose paper is published in the September issue of the journal Population and Environment, examined eight years of data from Gallup's annual environment poll and found that "women tend to believe the scientific consensus on global warming more than men". However, he also discovered that his findings reinforced past research which suggests women lack confidence in their science comprehension.
Read more... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/15/climate-change-gender-divide-belief
