Boston University School of Public Health, USA.
Union College, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2023 Oct;32(7):907-925. doi: 10.1177/09636625231167735. Epub 2023 May 19.
Low public concern about anthropogenic climate change (ACC)-due in part to distrust in the scientific community-may decrease demand for policies aimed at mitigating its deleterious effects. Encouragingly, though, recent research finds that experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated trust in scientific expertise worldwide. We explore the possibility that positive attitudes toward the medical community are "spilling over" to increase ACC acceptance via globally representative survey data from 107 countries ( = 119,088) conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that trust in medical experts' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with increased ACC acceptance, worldwide. Problematically, though, we also show that the effects of trust in medical professionals is strongest in countries experiencing the most positive change in attitudes toward the scientific community, which tend to be disproportionately wealthy, and less likely to bear the unequal effects of climate change.
公众对人为气候变化（ACC）的关注度较低-部分原因是对科学界的不信任-可能会降低对旨在减轻其有害影响的政策的需求。不过，令人鼓舞的是，最近的研究发现，应对 COVID-19 大流行的经验提高了全球对科学专业知识的信任。我们通过在 COVID-19 大流行期间在 107 个国家（ = 119,088）进行的全球代表性调查数据，探讨了对医学界的积极态度是否“溢出”，从而通过增加 ACC 接受度。我们表明，全球范围内，对医学专家处理 COVID-19 大流行的信任与对 ACC 的接受度增加有关。不过，问题在于，我们还表明，对医疗专业人员的信任的影响在对科学界的态度发生最积极变化的国家中最强，这些国家往往更加富裕，而且不太可能承受气候变化的不平等影响。
