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How Global Warming Works is a website developed by Michael Ranney, a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, United States. The stated goal of the website is to educate the public on the mechanisms of global warming, which was motivated by research Ranney and colleagues conducted on attitudes towards and understanding of global warming. ==Background== The motivation for the website came from two studies conducted by Ranney and colleagues.〔 In the first study, they hypothesized that one of the factors explaining why fewer Americans believe in global warming than do people in other industrialized nations is that they do not understand the mechanism of global warming. To test this hypothesis, they anonymously surveyed 270 park visitors and community college students in San Diego.〔〔 They reported that none of the 270 participants could explain the basic mechanism of global warming even though 80% thought that global warming was real and that 77% thought that humans contributed to it.〔〔〔 In the second study, they hypothesized that if people understood the mechanism of global warming, their understanding and acceptance of it would increase. Using a 400-word explanation of global warming〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://gse.berkeley.edu/less-minute )〕 they tested their hypothesis on students from the University of California, Berkeley and from the University of Texas at Brownsville. The following summary of the explanation given to the students to read was provided in ''Scientific American'': They reported that by reading a brief description of the mechanism of global warming, participants in the study increased both their understanding and acceptance of global warming.〔 These results motivated them to launch a new website with the aim of providing website visitors with videos of the mechanisms of global warming so that they could educate themselves on how global warming works.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「How Global Warming Works」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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