As Americans observe Earth Day, Gallup finds 42% of Americans identifying themselves as environmentalists, down from an average of 76% in the late 1980s and early 1990s. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Global Warming Feels Quite Pleasant
… Record-breaking temperatures are occurring with alarming frequency in the United States, but Americans are reacting with a collective shrug. In a poll taken in January, after the country’s warmest December on record, the Pew Research Center found that climate change ranked close to last on a list of the […] Read more »
We tested how best to ‘sell’ climate policy. Here’s what we found.
… Will simple spin-doctoring in climate change communications change how people view environmental policy? We don’t think so. Reframing climate change mitigation from avoiding something bad (risk reduction) to creating something good (innovation, jobs, good society, better health) does not offer an easy fix. CONT. Thomas Bernauer & Liam F. […] Read more »
Americans Believe 2015 Was Record-Warm, but Split on Why
U.S. government scientists recently reported that 2015 was the Earth’s warmest year since reliable record keeping began. Majorities of U.S. adults surveyed in Gallup’s annual Environment poll are aware of this finding and believe it is accurate, but they are almost evenly divided on whether the record-high temperatures are attributable […] Read more »
Gallup Finds Concerns Rising Over Global Warming and Nuclear Energy Solution
The climate appears to be changing in American attitudes about global warming. The evidence lies in the graph above from a new Gallup survey. This graph got far less attention this week than a much sharper year-on-year spike in worry and the highest level of belief (in 15 years of […] Read more »
Concerns About Water Pollution Edge Up
After declining last year, Americans’ worries about several environmental issues ticked upward in 2016, and are now mostly back to 2014 levels. A majority express “a great deal” of concern about polluted drinking water (61%) and the pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs (56%). These increases come as details surrounding […] Read more »