Low public concern about anthropogenic climate change (ACC)-due in part to distrust in the scientific community-may decrease demand for policies aimed at mitigating its deleterious effects. Encouragingly, though, recent research finds that experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated trust in scientific expertise worldwide. We explore the possibility that positive attitudes toward the medical community are "spilling over" to increase ACC acceptance via globally representative survey data from 107 countries (N = 119,088) conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that trust in medical experts' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with increased ACC acceptance, worldwide. Problematically, though, we also show that the effects of trust in medical professionals is strongest in countries experiencing the most positive change in attitudes toward the scientific community, which tend to be disproportionately wealthy, and less likely to bear the unequal effects of climate change.

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全球对科学界的态度与大流行相关的变化如何塑造“大流行后”环境舆论。

公众对人为气候变化（ACC）的关注度较低（部分原因是对科学界的不信任）可能会减少对旨在减轻其有害影响的政策的需求。不过，令人鼓舞的是，最近的研究发现，COVID-19 大流行的经历提高了全世界对科学专业知识的信任。我们通过在 COVID-19 大流行期间对 107 个国家（N = 119,088）进行的全球代表性调查数据，探讨了对医学界的积极态度“溢出”以提高 ACC 接受度的可能性。我们表明，对医学专家处理 COVID-19 大流行的信任与 ACC 在全球范围内的接受度提高有关。但问题是，我们还表明，在对科学界态度发生最积极变化的国家，对医疗专业人员的信任效果最强，这些国家往往非常富有，而且不太可能承受气候变化的不平等影响。