Climate change is predicted to increasingly bring more extreme weather and flooding to New Zealand this century. "Even in New Zealand, it seems that climate change denial is largely the preserve of conservative white males," prominent Victoria University climate scientist Professor James Renwick said. "We wanted to examine the extent to which system-justifying ideologies were related to climate change scepticism," he said. They also showed that these ideologies independently predicted climate change scepticism, even when considered in combination. "Better framing the issue of climate change, in a way that aligns to their identity and cognition, might engage these folks in taking action."

Source: New Zealand Herald October 19, 2020 03:11 UTC