The fairly robust winter weather and chilly spring conditions over much of the United States seem to have stopped a period of growth in the number of Americans that think global warming is occurring. According to the latest version of the National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE) from the […] Read more »
Public backs Obama on strong carbon controls
When President Barack Obama announces his new climate change plan Tuesday, he will be addressing a voting public that, despite conventional wisdom, is ready to embrace his key proposal: Environmental Protection Agency regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants. Since the failure to pass cap-and-trade in 2009, Washington conventional […] Read more »
Resilience in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy
In the United States, there is growing awareness of and attention to the tremendous, lasting damage and loss of life in communities affected by natural disasters. This attention brings the topics of preparedness, response, and recovery to the fore. Central to these discussions is resilience: how and why some individuals, […] Read more »
California: Majorities Favor Brown’s Revised Budget, School Funding Plan
Most Californians support Governor Jerry Brown’s revised budget proposal, and they overwhelmingly favor his spending plan for public schools. These are among the key findings of a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), with funding from The James Irvine Foundation. [cont.] Public Policy Institute […] Read more »
From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science?
… Many approaches have been taken to try to convince individual citizens to take climate change seriously. These include the arguments that we have an ethical and moral obligation to the less fortunate on the planet and to future generations, that we are conducting a risky experiment with the planet, […] Read more »
Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn’t everyone else?
Here’s a finding that shouldn’t be all that surprising: Since 1991, roughly 97 percent of all published scientific papers that take a position on the question agree that humans are warming the planet. That stat comes from this extensive new survey led by John Cook and Dana Nuccitelli, who run […] Read more »