It’s only mid-July, but it has already been a long, hot summer for a lot of people in the U.S., particularly in the West. The devastating heat wave along the Pacific Coast has been a major news story for the last few weeks. Look closer at 2021 and you’ll find […] Read more »
Californians don’t see the need to adapt to wildfires unless they have close experience with them
In recent years, wildfires have ravaged the Western American landscape with greater intensity and frequency. California has been especially hard hit. According to CALFire statistics, in 2018 alone, nearly 8,000 California wildfire incidents burned almost two million acres of land, destroyed over 24,000 structures, and claimed the lives of at […] Read more »
International Public Opinion on Climate Change
This report presents results from an international survey, conducted in partnership with Facebook Data for Good, investigating public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior among Facebook users in more than 30 countries and territories worldwide. CONTINUED Yale Program on Climate Change Communication The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily […] Read more »
Climate Change in the American Mind: 7 in 10 Americans think global warming is happening
… Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it is not happening by a ratio of more than 4 to 1. Seven in ten Americans (70%) think global warming is happening. By contrast, 15% of Americans think global warming is not happening. … A majority of […] Read more »
Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
Drawing on a nationally representative survey (n = 1,037; including 922 registered voters), this report describes how registered voters view a variety of climate and energy policies. The survey was fielded from March 18 – 29, 2021. This report focuses on U.S. domestic policy, building on our report released in […] Read more »
Gen Z, Millennials Stand Out for Climate Change Activism, Social Media Engagement With Issue
… Even as Americans identify a number of pressing national problems, majorities see an array of actors, from government to business, as doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change and are broadly supportive of a range of policy approaches that would help address climate change, including moving […] Read more »