(In fact, co-author Michael Mann is the same scientist whose controversial «hockey - stick» graph first ignited widespread
public concern over global warming in the early 2000s.)
For years, researchers worried about the lack of
public concern over global warming, or overinflated public concern about, say, the perils of vaccination, have bemoaned the lack of public understanding of basic science.
The post starts off wondering if there may have been a recent decline in
public concern over global warming and then considers if a simpler method of communicating the science would help.
Not exact matches
Importantly, Gallup's annual March update on the environment shows a drop in
public concern about
global warming across several different measures, suggesting that the
global warming message may have lost some footing with Americans
over the past year.
Multiple indicators show less
concern, more feelings that
global warming is exaggerated By Frank Newport Gallup's annual update on Americans» attitudes toward the environment shows a
public that
over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of
global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to -LSB-...]
Most laypersons obtain information on
global warming from news media, and on the surface it appears that
public views
concerning media coverage of
global warming have been relatively stable
over the past decade.
Earlier this month, a New York Times article by Andy Revkin voiced
concern over a gap between «the consensus» of climate scientists and
public acceptance of the theory of human - caused
global warming.
Over the next few critical months, he would play a major role, sometimes in the background, in a dazzling number of crucial events that would finally put
global warming back in its rightful place at the forefront of
public concern.
Wary of how
public concern over climate change could drop demand for fossil fuel products, the Kochs have spent the last 15 years dumping
over $ 61 million to front groups telling us that
global warming doesn't exist, or that it would destroy our economy to stop runaway climate change.