{"id":66767,"date":"2018-05-09T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66767"},"modified":"2018-05-06T23:13:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:13:35","slug":"as-they-say-not-as-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66767","title":{"rendered":"As They Say, Not As They Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study shows that global warming skeptics&#8217; actual behavior is more environmentally responsible than Warmists&#8217;, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/environment\/mission-compostable\">enviro-weenies feel they are entitled to do a little polloting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, followed more than 400 Americans for a full year. On seven occasions\u2014roughly once every eight weeks\u2014participants revealed their climate change beliefs, and their level of support for policies such as gasoline taxes and fuel economy standards.<\/p>\n<p>They also noted how frequently they engaged in four environmentally friendly behaviors: recycling, using public transportation, buying &#8220;green&#8221; products, and using reusable shopping bags.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found participants broke down into three groups, which they labeled &#8220;skeptical,&#8221; &#8220;cautiously worried,&#8221; and &#8220;highly concerned.&#8221; While policy preferences of group members tracked with their beliefs, their behaviors largely did not: Skeptics reported using public transportation, buying eco-friendly products, and using reusable bags more often than those in the other two categories.<\/p>\n<p>This pattern was found consistently through the year, leading the researchers to conclude that &#8220;belief in climate change does not appear to be a necessary or sufficient condition for pro-environmental behavior.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s more important to signal virtue than to actually be virtuous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study shows that global warming skeptics&#8217; actual behavior is more environmentally responsible than Warmists&#8217;, and that enviro-weenies feel they are entitled to do a little polloting: The study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, followed more than 400 Americans for a full year. On seven occasions\u2014roughly once every eight weeks\u2014participants revealed their climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66768,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66767\/revisions\/66768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}