Biased Left Victims and Spreaders of Climate Change Anxiety

Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety

Hannes Zacher & Cort W. Rudolph
Climatic Change volume 176, Article number: 32 (2023)
Basically this study shows that the brainwashed left with limited and biased understanding and knowledge of weather patterns are more likely to be in a state of anxiety about the climate future.
This is seen in the climate change leaders such as Flannery, Thunberg , Al Gore, Bowen and the UN`s chief scaremonger Guterres.



This study tests the hypotheses that overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge are inversely related to climate change anxiety, such that people who know more (less) about the environment in general, and about climate in particular, are less (more) anxious about climate change. Time lagged data were collected from N = 2,066 individuals in Germany. Results showed that, even after controlling for demographic characteristics, personality characteristics, and environmental attitudes, overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge were negatively related to climate change anxiety (both B = -.09, p < .001).

Compared to more constructive forms of worrying about global warming that result in adaptive responses (e.g., Verplanken et al. 2020), it seems desirable to reduce climate change anxiety because it has been shown to have detrimental consequences for people’s general health and well-being, including higher levels of depression, anxiety, and distress (Schwartz et al. 2022; Searle and Gow 2010).
Psychological theorizing suggests that a lack of knowledge about a topic leads to greater feelings of uncertainty which, in turn, may result in anxiety associated with the topic, whereas greater available knowledge about a topic is likely to reduce experiences of topic-associated uncertainty and anxiety (Hirsh et al. 2012; Jungermann and Thüring 1993).