# Professor Jonathan Haidt discusses the impact of liberal politics on climate change

1 Faculty News April 19, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/business/economy/liberal-biases-too-may-block-progress-on-climate-change.html) -- "Responses aren’t necessarily driven by ignorance. 'Where there is a sacred value that empirical science contradicts,' science will have trouble making headway, notes [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a social psychologist at the Stern School of Business at New York University."

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