A Climate Science Report That Changes Minds? Don’t Bet on It

The Trump administration published a report Friday on climate change from its own scientists that left no doubt about its grim reality and its causes. …

But there is little reason to think that yet another scientific report will fundamentally shift attitudes on global warming — either among policymakers or the public at large. Researchers have found again and again that attitudes about climate change are shaped far more profoundly by political ideology or by comfort with proposed solutions to global warming than they are by the science itself. CONT.

Brad Plumer, New York Times