This week, Ipsos released results from the first
global public opinion survey that included a question on autonomous weapons.
A new study has just been released by Chatham House in Great Britain and was designed to assess
the global public opinion on meat and dairy consumption.
Every Palestinian rocket is a justification for Israel to clamp down harder on Gaza and the Palestinians (who are again increasingly being equated with Hamas militants in
global public opinion, for they support their killing of Israeli innocents).
The group hopes to mobilise
global public opinion around a set of core principles of free expression, accessibility, privacy, openness and network neutrality.
Not exact matches
Indeed, her constant disparagement (wrongly) of Dwight Eisenhower as a weak president indicates not so much a fear of Cold Warriors as a fear of a domestic leadership that looks to
public opinion and that is unable to cope with
global issues.
John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man - made
global warming, and that
public confidence in science depends on more openness to varied
opinions.
SportsInsights tracks
public opinion on major sporting events by monitoring the pulse of the
global sports marketplace.
The
global economic collapse of the last 12 months has produced a dramatic shift in
public opinion on appropriate reward for a job well done and what should happen when things don't go well.
The President noted that it is the emergence of a strong
public opinion in favour of legalisation of homosexuality that will change the laws of Ghana on the
global subject.
Non-governmental organisations like
Global Witness and Greenpeace bring these cases to the court of
public opinion.
Soon is a leading skeptic of the widely accepted science surrounding climate change, In the International Journal of
Public Opinion Research, a study titled «The Structure of Scientific
Opinion on Climate Change» found that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believed
global warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of scientists surveyed believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the change.
Since 2008, Ed has served as Co-Principal Investigator (with Anthony Leiserowitz and Connie Roser - Renouf) of the Yale / George Mason University Climate Change in the American Mind audience research project, which tracks
public opinion about climate change, including the
Global Warming's Six Americas audience segments.
Internal documents published on DeSmogBlog prompted multiple Greenpeace investigations into the Heartland Institute's influence on our government, our universities, and our
public opinion and what implications they have on our ability to stop
global warming.
Earlier today, the
Global Strategy Group, a political consulting and
public relations company released a memo about a
public opinion survey that it had conducted for the «education reform» advocacy group, ConnCAN, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc..
Each day a selection of
public videos will be featured on the
global Tate Facebook page, to celebrate the diverse
opinions around contemporary art today.
Opinion polls for the past decade have consistently shown that the
public would like to see something done about the
global warming problem, along with many other environmental issues.
The claims of
global warming deniers that
public opinion is on their side are as bogus as their pseudo-science, pseudo-economics and pseudo-ideology.
Public opinion polls indicate that concern about
global warming has been going down, even as the evidence (giant forest fires, drought, floods, record setting hot days etc) becomes so ironclad that it's almost a joke.
agencies were redacted and changed, and stopped from being published by the Bush administration, and the head of the EPA.They cost us much lost time (20 years or so) in the fight against
global warming because they skewed
public opinion away from the severity of the issue, and cast doubt on the facts supporting
global warming.
First, I would suggest to those who hope to influence American
public opinion regarding anthropogenic
global warming, PLEASE state temperatures and temperature changes in degrees Fahrenheit, rather than degrees Celsius.
Global climate denialists are purposely trying to muddy
public opinion on climate change.
His talk touched on the findings of his recent work, and pondered the divide between
public opinion regarding
global warming — he pointed out that strong majorities in every single state believe that it's real — and the
opinion held by our political leaders.
Chattopadhyay asked me to react after quoting from a paper in
Public Opinion Quarterly that surveyed the differing responses of Republicans and Democrats to the phrases «
global warming» or «climate change»:
beliefs and attitudes about
global warming
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The Climate Reality Project, a group overseen by Al Gore, is trying to win over
public opinion by getting people to spread accurate
global warming science in the comment sections of news stories online, where the battle rages with particular ferocity.
US
public opinion is very soft in how much it will support on
global warming.
Global warming advocates have had their greatest success in the media arena but are checked by the rise of a conservative counter-campaign as well as media reporting norms, which have contributed to polarized
public opinion and limited salience of the issue.
Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other
Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus
opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other
global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the
public, in other words.
As
opinion polls reveal that
global warming is losing traction on the
public imagination, environmental pressure groups have been cranking the engine on this «other carbon dioxide problem».
Comparisons with the El Nino peak of 1998 enabled them to announce that
global warming had stopped, a point which was amplified in vast numbers of
opinion pieces, blog posts and
public statements, though not, to my knowledge, defended by any peer - reviewed statistical analysis.
As I've pointed out in other essays, the notion that the whole world is anxious about
global warming or climate change is an artefact of the way in which
public opinion surveys construct their questions.
The energy industry is facing pressure from regulators, shifting
public opinion, a movement toward a
global climate treaty and now, potential investigations of companies like...
The «
global warming denial machine» was alive and well in 2013, and continued to have an impact on
public opinion regarding the seriousness of the problem.
Over the past 20 years, there have been dozens of news organization, academic, and nonpartisan
public opinion surveys on
global warming, yet there exists no authoritative summary of their collective findings.
There's also a graph on p. 40 showing divided
opinion about whether individuals can make a difference to
global warming, so the disagreement between Milan & Emily seems to reflect a broader split in
public opinion.
Although
global climate change entails more than rising temperatures, the terms «
global warming» and «climate change» are used interchangeably in
public discourse and
opinion polls on this issue (e.g., PIPA / Knowledge Networks 2005; see Whitmarsh 2009 for a discussion).
Matthew C. Nisbet, Teresa Myers; The Polls — Trends: Twenty Years of
Public Opinion about
Global Warming,
Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 3, 1 January 2007, Pages 444 — 470, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfm031
In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a
global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape
public opinion and influence societal decisions.
For instance, a poll of American
opinions on
global warming suggested that the
public by and large opposes taxes on gasoline or electricity as a way of combating
global climate change and, instead, favors stricter fuel - and building - efficiency standards (Leiserowtiz 2009).
In a new screed against a free exchange of ideas on climate change, «Earther» Brian Kahn argues that those who question
global warming orthodoxy have no right to voice their
opinions in
public.
Writing in the journal
Public Opinion Quarterly, a research team led by University of Michigan psychologist Jonathon Schuldt reports Republicans are far more skeptical of «
global warming» than of «climate change.»
Special Issue Call for Papers Environmental Debates Over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the
Public In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape public opinion and influence societal deci
Public In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a
global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape
public opinion and influence societal deci
public opinion and influence societal decisions.
Some greens in other countries tend to write America off because it chose not to ratify the Kyoto protocol, because the federal government has consistently refused to adopt a mandatory system for restricting emissions, and because American
public opinion is relatively indifferent to
global warming (see chart 5).
FOR more than a decade
public opinion on human - caused
global warming has been moulded by pronouncements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its army of acolytes.
As the link between human activity and climate change becomes conventional wisdom and governments work urgently to establish a
global climate treaty, Pachauri deserves no small amount of credit for creating such an extraordinary shift in
public opinion.
The fateful page was in a routine
public opinion poll and proposal for a related campaign of the type that EEI regularly commissioned, this year on
public attitudes about
global warming.
One after another the
global warming experts rose to condemn me for questioning in
public the conclusions of an IPCC report that had been compiled and endorsed as the consensus
opinion of a large number of knowledgeable scientists.
Utilizing Stimson's method of constructing aggregate
opinion measures, data from 74 separate surveys over a 9 - year period are used to construct quarterly measures of
public concern over
global climate change.
... We've also participated in a pilot project to measure
public opinion about the
global warming issue and to see if a factual, science - based
public information campaign can have an impact.
Public opinion related to the consumption of coal is directed primarily to its environmental impact in light of ongoing efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and tackle
global climate change.