As Barack Obama nears the halfway point of his second term, things appear finally to be looking up for the president after a difficult year. For the first time since September 2013, Gallup’s daily polling on Mr. Obama’s job approval rating shows it above water: 48% of Americans approve of […] Read more »
Public Perceptions Of The Health Consequences Of Global Warming
… In our new report, Public Perceptions of the Health Consequences of Global Warming, we find that Americans are generally unaware of potential health consequences of global warming. When asked what global warming-related health problems, if any, Americans are experiencing, only about one in four respondents (27%) were able to […] Read more »
American Attitudes about Global Warming and Energy Policy
In its inaugural poll of Americans’ environmental attitudes, a new collaboration between The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans say the United States ought to take a leadership role in combatting global warming, and twice as […] Read more »
A big reason climate change isn’t a priority: The apocalypse
If you want to understand how little urgency there is among the American public about climate change, consider this: A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute asked people about the severity of recent natural disasters. About six in 10 (62 percent) said climate change is at least partly […] Read more »
Why Americans are Conflicted about Climate Change, Environmental Policy, and Science
In the wake of a climate deal with China and congressional vote on the Keystone XL pipeline, a new national survey finds that few Americans believe they will personally be harmed by climate change but that it poses significant risk to people in poorer countries. The PRRI/AAR Religion, Values and […] Read more »
Americans Support CO2 Limits on Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants
Despite the debate in Congress over proposed EPA regulations, a solid majority of Americans (67%) support setting strict carbon dioxide emission limits on existing coal-fired power plants to reduce global warming and improve public health. CONT. Yale Project on Climate Change Communication Read more »