Sentences with phrase «belief in climate»

The report includes many other interesting results, including the latest measures of public belief in climate change, its causes, and perceived threats.

The Scotsman Published Date: 01 February 2010 Ed Miliband pleads for belief in climate change as fresh hole blown in claims

Did it surprise him that public belief in climate science has actually eroded?

But I do think there's room for another dimension to the scenario Roberts describes — that is, short of the mega-disasters described above, the generally crazier weather events that climate change increases the strength and frequency of do have an impact on American belief in climate change.

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A new Pew survey reveals that as the economy shows signs of a modest recovery, public belief in climate change may be on the rise.

And among moderate Republicans, belief in climate change constitutes the majority.

We are currently doing user testing to see if localized climate data has an impact on on people in terms of their belief in climate change and their perceptions of risk.

A short animation detailing the effort of billionaires oil barons Charles & David Koch to undermine belief in climate change and prevent legislation that threatens their profits.

Note also the final line: «But the underlying issue, that Bayesian use of a uniform prior in S conveys a strong belief in climate sensitivity being high, prejudging the observational evidence, applies to almost all of the Figure 9.20 PDFs.»

But the underlying issue, that Bayesian use of a uniform prior in S conveys a strong belief in climate sensitivity being high, prejudging the observational evidence, applies to almost all of the Figure 9.20 PDFs.

I can go back & check, but I'm pretty sure the last time I collected data on this issue (probably 2009 or so), the connection between «scientific consensus» & «belief in climate change was much much stronger.

I can go back & check, but I'm pretty sure the last time I collected data on this issue (probably 2009 or so), the connection between «scientific consnesus» & «belief in climate change was much much stronger.

(in press), which examines the non-relationship between belief in climate change & belief in evolution, respectively, to science comprehension.

• the financial resources and spending of environmental groups and their opponents; • the planning efforts and investment strategies of major foundations; • the patterns in news attention and media portrayals of climate change; • the factors shaping the recent decline in public concern and belief in climate change; • the factors influencing how scientists and environmentalists interpret and make sense of climate change politics.

Moreover, a change in a respondent's estimate of the scientific consensus significantly influences the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused, and the extent to which they worry about the issue (note that belief in climate change and human causation also directly influence level of «worry»).

This has put the group in the rather awkward position of having to defend its belief in climate change.

Not to mention that Jennifer's main point is correct: temperature adjustments have on balance been improperly used by climate hypesters to support their fervent belief in a climate catastrophe.

Moreover, previous research has identified important associations between public perceptions of the scientific consensus, belief in climate change and support for climate policy.

«This successful anti-science campaign has targeted Republican elites across all levels of government, eroding belief in climate change among conservatives in the public and in office,» Leah Stokes, a political scientist the University of California, Santa Barbara, told Earther in an email.

Look at this great latent - variable measure of ideology: just add belief in climate change, belief nuclear power causes global warming, belief global warming causes flooding to liberal - conserative ideology & party identification!The answer is, Not what you know but who you are.

Especially since most jobs in the study of climate change, require proven belief in climate change.

But equally clearly, it wound up further identifying belief in climate change with Democrat politics, Democrat concerns, and motivated the * other * half of the population to try to prove him wrong.

It so happens that a headline in yesterday's Guardian smartly contradicts Wright: «Sharp decline in public's belief in climate threat, British poll reveals.»

That the belief in climate consensus — and the apocalyptic narratives that emerge — is the most widespread manifestation of the madness of crowds in the history of the world.

Now he is working against an even bigger enemy: belief in climate change.

Their worst fear is that Francis might successfully disabuse religious conservatives of a longstanding and pernicious myth: that climate change should be thought of as a splinter issue, and that belief in climate science and support for environmental action signify membership in the «enemy camp.»

But this summer's encyclical has the potential to shatter the illusion of an insuperable divide between conservative cultural values and belief in climate change.

«If the public were aware that man - made CO2 is so incredibly small there would be very little belief in a climate disaster»

Even in places like Western Europe, where belief in climate science tends to be much stronger, it's hard to build support for the actual steps to reduce carbon emissions.

@HeartlandInst compares belief in climate change to mass murder.

After the stunning victory, one of the scientists on the side promoting the belief in a climate «crisis» appeared to concede defeat by noting his debate team was «pretty dull» and at «a sharp disadvantage» against the skeptics.

Some years ago, our colleagues showed that people's perception of the level of scientific agreement was associated with belief in climate change and policy support for the issue.

Three Republican presidential candidates stated their belief in climate change last night during two debates that wandered from economic policies to sharp attacks on the media.

Pidgeon thinks that the public's belief in climate change will rebound now that the media frenzy surrounding the recent controversies has come to an end.

As the U.S. economy slumped between 2008 and 2012, multiple surveys showed Americans» belief in climate change dropped about 10 percentage points before rebounding.

Previous studies have found that belief in climate change is linked to more support for climate change actions.

Political party and belief in climate change are the main determinants of whether people are willing to pay a modest fee to combat climate change, as opposed to education, income, or geographic location.

The candidates fielded 14 questions, ranging from their stances on national issues — all asserted their belief in climate change and said they were against eliminating federal tax deductions for local property taxes — to how they'd help the homeless.

People use groups they belong to to guide beliefs in climate change.

These new data, though, show that acceptance of «scientific consensus» in fact has a weaker relationship to beliefs in climate change in right - leaning members of the public than it does in left - leaning ones.

Not exact matches

However, according to the report, «Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,» threat isn't measured by violent actions but by beliefs within the realm of civilized discourse.

The belief that certainty is attainable, if only the right method can be found and consistently practiced, has fostered a climate in which «speculation» has been negatively appraised.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and most complete of human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the modern world.

The diffusion of political responsibility that results from popular sovereignty, the belief that every group has a right to its own state, and the decline in the belief in absolute human rights have together fostered a hospitable intellectual climate for terrorism.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confclimate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfClimate Conference.

He has many ideas and beliefs which could well prove to be popular in the climate we're in and yes, as I have said before, people grew tired of the old way of the doing things in the Labour party where everything was over managed.

Researchers found that having a teacher who believed climate change was occurring — as 92 percent of students in the study did — was a «strong, positive predictor» of students» belief in global warming.

The Senators should make certain that the nominee pledges to use the best available evidence on climate change in making policy — not unsubstantiated and fringe beliefs.