Women ages 18-35, place a high priority on a candidate who shares their culture and values; it’s more important to them than party labels. They cite health care as their top issue in the 2018 election, with more calling it very important, compared to other issues. Most say they see […] Read more »
It’s Time for a Focused Climate Change Public Engagement Strategy: It’s About Health, Stupid
… As communication scientists, we study—among other things—how to mount science-based public communication campaigns for the benefit of the publics’ health and wellbeing. In a series of studies conducted over the past several years, we have sought to understand how Americans respond to information about the health effects of climate […] Read more »
Announcing Yale Climate Opinion Maps 3.0
This version of the Yale Climate Opinion Maps is based on data through the year 2018. Public opinion about global warming is an important influence on decision making about policies to reduce global warming or prepare for the impacts, but American opinions vary widely depending on where people live. … […] Read more »
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
… Everybody knew. In 1958, on prime-time television, “The Bell Science Hour” — one of the most popular educational film series in American history — aired “The Unchained Goddess,” a film about meteorological wonders, produced by Frank Capra, a dozen years removed from “It’s a Wonderful Life,” warning that “man […] Read more »
Actually, Republicans Do Believe in Climate Change
It is widely believed that most Republicans are skeptical about human-caused climate change. But is this belief correct? In 2014 and 2016, we conducted two national surveys of more than 2,000 respondents on the issue of climate change. We found that most Republicans agreed that climate change is happening, threatens […] Read more »
Public backs action on global warming – but with cost concerns and muted urgency
Public awareness of global warming is up and support for action is broad, with eight in 10 Americans saying the federal government should try to achieve the same deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions called for in the international treaty rejected by Donald Trump. Sixty-one percent in a new national […] Read more »