Sentences with phrase «about public perception of climate change»

So, while national surveys can give us some important information about public perception of climate change, they only form part of the story.

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As with perceptions of scientific consensus on other topics, public perceptions that scientists tend to agree about climate change tend to vary by education and age.

Permit me to challenge two things; your simplistic description of the risk perception psychology that explains why the public doesn't seem to care about such a huge threat, and more profoundly, the naive belief that public concern about climate change can make much difference.

«Our findings prove that there is a strong scientific agreement about the cause of climate change, despite public perceptions to the contrary,» lead author John Cook with the University of Queensland said.

A variety of denier sources attacked these papers, clouding the public perception about the degree to which climate scientists are sure humans are causing climate change.

It's easy for people to get confused about immense inertia of public opinion on climate change because advocacy pollsters are constantly «messaging» an «upsurge,» «shift,» «swing» etc. in public perceptions of climate change.

Prof Reser said the survey was one of the few in - depth studies that really drilled down into public perceptions and understandings about climate change.

Perception of Scientists & Evidence Changing But back to the issue of growing scientific evidence of warming: The percentage of people who think most scientists think climate change is happening dropped 13 point to 34 %, while 40 % of the American public believes there is «a lot of disagreement» among scientists about whether warming is happening or not.

«Our findings prove that there is a strong scientific agreement about the cause of climate change, despite public perceptions to the contrary».