Understanding public complacency about climate change: adults’ mental models of climate change violate conservation of matter

By John D. Sterman, L. Sweeney. 2007

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Customer Response to Carbon Labelling of Groceries (2011, unknown): “This study, based on sales of 2890 items during a 12-week period (4 weeks before and 8 weeks after labelling) is too limited to draw decisive conclusions, but illustrates the potential – despite public complacency (Sterman and Sweeney 2007) – for voluntary reductions in domestic emissions, especiall”
Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings (2010, unknown): “Although Gardner and Stern did not examine people’s perceptions of the behaviors on their short list, other research indicates that members of the general public have a poor understandingof the mechanisms involved in climate change (8, 9) and of the energy consumption associated with familiar activi”
The Psychology of Environmental Decisions (2014, background): “For example, Sterman & Sweeney (58) showed participants a hypothetical plot in which the accumulated concentration of atmospheric CO2 rises steadily until the year 2000 and then remains stable for the next century.”
Misperceptions of global climate change: information policies (2009, background): “Of particular relevance here is a study of global warming by Sterman and Booth Sweeney (2002) and an updated version of this study ( Sterman and Sweeney 2007 ), the latter will be referred to as S&S.”
Preparing for smart grid technologies: A behavioral decision research approach to understanding consumer expectations about smart meters (2012, background): “…et al., 2003), inflation (Svenson and Nilsson, 1986), hurricane modification (Klima et al., in preparation), climate change (Bostrom et al., 1994; Sterman and Sweeney, 2007), as well as carbon capture and sequestration and other low-carbon electricity generation technologies (Fleishman et al.,…”
Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies (2014, background): “Stirling (2007) further distinguishes between uncertainty 42 (insufficient knowledge to assess probabilities), ambiguity (insufficient knowledge about possible 43 outcomes), and ignorance (insufficient knowledge of likely outcomes and their probabilities).”
Public understanding of climate change in the United States. (2011, unknown): “" Long residence times are hard to understand; well-educated nonspecialists systematically underestimate the degree to which carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced in order to stabilize overall concentrations (Sterman & Booth Sweeney, 2007).”
Environmental learning in online social networks: adopting environmentally responsible behaviors (2011, result): “These results indicate that even some of the most educated members of the public may need more science knowledge to make informed decisions on public policy (Mohan, Chen, and Anderson 2009 ; Sterman and Sweeney 2007 ).”
Perceptions of time in relation to climate change (2014, unknown): “Sterman and Booth Sweeney 24 observe that a ‘wait and see strategy’ is popular amongst the general public and policymakers, but argue this only works in simple systems with short time lags, very unlike the climate change system.”