Climate change is a major threat to ecosystems and people around the world. Risk analysts, including the U.S. Department of Defense, rank climate change as one of the most serious threats to society. The 2014 Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that “climate change will […] Read more »
Healthcare Once Again Tops List of Americans’ Worries
Fifty-five percent of Americans worry “a great deal” about the availability and affordability of healthcare, topping Gallup’s list of potentially worrisome issues for the fifth straight year. A majority of Americans have said they worry a great deal about healthcare in each of the 18 years the question has been […] Read more »
40 Years After Three Mile Island, Americans Split on Nuclear Power
Four decades after a radiation leak at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania caused a national scare, Americans are evenly split on the use of nuclear power as a U.S. energy source. Forty-nine percent of U.S. adults either strongly favor (17%) or somewhat favor (32%) the […] Read more »
Most Americans Support Reducing Fossil Fuel Use
While the future of the Green New Deal proposed in Congress is uncertain, most Americans support the general idea of dramatically reducing the country’s use of fossil fuels over the next two decades as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
How Jay Inslee Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination
In his 2020 presidential announcement video, two-term Washington Governor Jay Inslee declares that climate change is the “most urgent challenge of our time.” Inslee intends to make climate change his signature issue. … But putting climate change ahead of all other issues could be risky, Stanford University psychologist Jon Krosnick […] Read more »
Jay Inslee wants to win the White House on climate change. He has his work cut out for him
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is making man-made climate change a cornerstone of his 2020 presidential candidacy. For many Democrats, it is an issue near to their heart. According to a Pew Research Center poll taken last year, 75% of Democrats say human activity is causing climate change. All the major […] Read more »