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.
Indeed, in their much — discussed research on «cultural cognition,» Dan Kahan and his colleagues suggest that
public perceptions of climate change at least partly depend on the technological solutions proposed.
Spence, A., Venables, D., Pidgeon, N. F., Poortinga, W. & Demski,
C. Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Energy Futures in Britain: Summary Findings of a Survey Conducted in January - March 2010.
Crossing the Atlantic to the UK, YouGov recently carried out a poll for the Sunday Times, showing
how public perception of climate change varies across five regions: London, the South, Wales and the Midlands, the North and Scotland.
Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk: Surveys of the United States, Canada and Malta Abstract We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and 2009 to answer three questions: Does the public believe that climate change poses human health risks, and if...
Anthony Broccoli, professor of environmental sciences at Rutgers University, notes that the study's results may have implications for
the public perception of climate change.
Here's the abstract of his latest draft paper, «
Public Perception of Climate Change and the New Climate Dice»:
Here's the abstract of his latest draft paper, «
Public Perception of Climate Change and the New Climate Dice»: Read more...
Disaster Narrative and
Public Perceptions of Climate Change.»
The panel talk,
Public Perception of Climate Change — Past, Present and Future was led by the independent science journalist and former CNN science reporter Miles O'Brien.
Finally, James Hansen's 2012 paper, «
Public perception of climate change and the new climate dice», was important in highlighting the real - world impacts of climate change, says Prof Andy Challinor, expert in climate change impacts at the University of Leeds and lead author on the food security chapter in the working group two report.
There currently is a significantly large gap between scientific consensus (97 %) and
public perception of climate change (48 %).
Public perceptions of climate change in Britain following the winter 2013/2014 flooding.
In his July 2012 article, The New Climate Dice:
Public Perception of Climate Change, he and his co-authors cite the 2007 IPCC Report which said