+Politics | March 9, 2011

Why Facts Don’t Always Help in the Battle Over Climate Science Skepticism

By Bryan Walsh

For my weekly Going Green column on the Time.com mainpage, I have a piece examining why belief in climate science—especially among conservatives—has waned so much in America lately. Tuesday’s climate science hearings in the House of Representatives—which featured significantly more politics than science—seemed to show that facts really aren’t driving the debate over climate change [...]

+Psychology | November 22, 2010

Climate: Be Afraid of Global Warming. But Not Too Afraid

By Bryan Walsh

Over on the mainpage, I have a Going Green column on a forthcoming psychology study that found that news articles and other messages that emphasize the scariest, most catastrophic possible impacts of global warming actually increase climate change skepticism, not the other way around. You can read about it here, and for more detail check [...]