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Echo chambers and false certainty

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Climate change continues to be a controversial issue among political elites in the US. New research shows how ideological views become entrenched through 'echo chambers'.

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  1. Justin Farrell is in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA,

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Farrell, J. Echo chambers and false certainty. Nature Clim Change 5, 719–720 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2732

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