Sentences with phrase «opinion about climate 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.

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

Public opinion about climate change, observes the New York Times» Andrew Revkin, can be compared to «waves in a shallow pan,» easily tipped with «a lot of sloshing but not a lot of depth.»

And as quoted at Romm's blog, Bob Brulle asserted that «The shift in public opinion about climate change is linked to the nature of mainstream media coverage of the so - called «climategate scandal.»

There are a number of ways to canvass opinion about climate change issues.

He was the lead author of a 2013 analysis that found 97 percent of all scientific papers expressing an opinion about climate change concluded it was human - caused.

At a time when public opinion about climate change is all over the map, we are excited to share this new interactive maping tool, Yale Climate Opinion Maps (from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication).

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.

Nisbet's prior research examining public opinion about climate change and energy insecurity also revealed for science communicators that understanding the public in more precise ways than partisanship or ideology allowed for improved outreach.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

Blaming big oil and big coal for the broad array of opinions about climate change is disingenuous.

Krosnik is a thoughtful scholar of the interplay between media coverage and public understanding of and opinions about climate change whose views are worth a gander if you're interested in this question.

Informed scientists clearly have a range of opinions about climate change — compare Judith Curry with Phil Jones for example.

While opinions about climate change vary greatly, even among experts in climate science, the consensus is that short - range weather events have little to do with the climate change debate.

Changing either of these two groups» opinions about climate change is nearly impossible, Leiserowitz said.

I always promise myself not to get surprised by the illogic of public opinions about climate change... but check out that interactive graphic..

Policies that help people reduce their energy use through energy efficiency improvements thus receive wide support, regardless of individual opinions about climate change.

New research shows that Republicans have more varied opinions about climate change than their political leaders suggest

Opinions about climate change and policies intended to mitigate it are even more fraught.

Not exact matches

Despite rapidly changing public opinions about cannabis, the current political climate is likely to pause any further liberalization in how leagues approach the substance.

Despite the severe flooding, the public remain unconvinced about climate change, according to the latest opinion poll.

That became clear as soon as the article was published, when just about everyone with an opinion on climate change jumped on it.

The questionnaire asks about how IPCC has gone about its business since its inception in 1988, how it has handled the range of scientific opinions on climate change, how it responds to criticism and errors, and how it deals with governments and the media.

Tillerson suggested that although he would share his opinion about the reality of climate change with senators, the president - elect's «priority in campaigning was America first,» and the Paris Agreement could put us at a «disadvantage.»

'' [Weber and Curry] may have different views on climate change, but I think that's a strength of our department that we can have academic freedom and host faculty members with different opinions about subjects,» Huey said.

In the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate change).

Researchers at Yale created the Climate Opinion Maps to determine how Americans feel about climate change on national, state, congressional district, and county Climate Opinion Maps to determine how Americans feel about climate change on national, state, congressional district, and county climate change on national, state, congressional district, and county levels.

Doing so allowed them to approximate what national public opinion is about climate change while also revealing Americans» different beliefs, attitudes, and what policies they support.

It's probably conservatives trying to seize the attack ground in view of a possible pending debate about climate change in Washington, but the chorus of denialist opinion is so coordinated and their «logic» so simple it is convincing many, even among educated people (science PhDs) who can not be bothered to look deep into things but try to form an opinion based on a few journalistic pieces.

Could I be wrong in my opinions about «climate change»?

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

When I talk to people about climate change (and the one time that I gave a talk on climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly independent opinion on the subject.

Yet elected officials, the media, advocates, and educators currently know little about public climate change opinion at these sub-national levels.

The Administration's claims of sincere wishes to do something about climate change is pure cynical manipulation of public opinion, and means nothing.

An interesting recent Mori poll result of public opinion within the UK about climate change can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6263690.stm

I agree that cultural cognition — the idea that we shape our views so they agree with those in the groups with which we most closely identify, in the name of acceptance by our group and thus of safety — powerfully explains the polarized passions over whether climate change is «real,» the «debate» that gets most of the attention about public opinion.

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I believe in climate change, I just have read enough to know that I am not sure about CO2 and being told, that it right because it is an experts opinion does not cut it.

However, these same folks feel confident holding an opinion about anthropogenic climate change (or the lack thereof).

John P. Holdren, the head of Harvard's Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy and a longtime advocate of prompt curbs in greenhouse gases, sent me a note about the reaction he received after the Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune published his opinion piece earlier this month asserting that «climate change skeptics are dangerously wrong.»

Funny that Warren showed up here, because I was just stopping by the comment section to note that his paper demonstrates another manner in how people are confused about the mechanisms behind how the public formulates opinions (or gets confused about) climate change:

Do you really think that you can extrapolate from questions on opinions about whether climate change is predominantly anthropogenic in nature to demographic characteristics of people who «speak out» as «climate contrarians» camp, or who are «leftists?»

The survey, conducted by Globescan, a Canadian polling firm specializing in excavating opinion among leaders and stakeholders, collected feedback from about 1,000 «climate change decision makers,» in 115 countries through the month of November.

Not to deny by any means the importace of thinking about the US vs. UK differences — in public opinion & in how public opinion bears on political decisionmaking — but we did use our framework to test how cultural cognition, measured w / our scales, affects English (yes, English; not entire UK) public engagement with informaton on climate change.

Subjects holding hierarchical and individualistic outlooks, on the one hand, and ones holding egalitarian and communitarian outlooks, click me for a closer look!on the other, significantly disagreed about the state of expert opinion on climate change, nuclear waste disposal, and handgun regulation.

In conversations about climate change, two different worlds tend to emerge: the scientific community and public opinion.

(That's why, in my opinion, ultimately all the important arguments in the climate change debate end up being about the measured data!)

(They didn't always get the details quite right: our survey was of the literature, not of scientists» opinions and we had nothing to say about how dangerous climate change would be.)

b) Digital news communities that provide independently produced news and information about climate change and energy tailored to the local and regional needs of an area such as Chicago and that provide a social media platform for aggregating local bloggers, news from other outlets, information from agencies and universities, and for discussion by citizens and opinion leaders.

There can be reasonable differences of opinion about responses to the climate change problem, but there is no reasonable basis for denying that the problem exists.