While unusual weather patterns have always come and gone, in a changing climate extreme weather events will become more frequent. And this year has already had its fair share of extremes. But if extreme temperatures arrived in your area, would you even notice? Often, the answer is no, according to […] Read more »
Market Expectations About Climate Change
An emerging literature examines how agents update their beliefs about climate change. Most studies have relied on indirect belief measures or opinion polls. We analyze a direct measure: prices of financial products whose payouts are tied to future weather outcomes. … When money is at stake, agents are accurately anticipating […] Read more »
Republicans Already Are Demonizing Democrats as Socialists and Baby Killers
In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite. That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, as they seek to demonize Democrats well in advance of the 2020 elections by painting them as left-wing crazies who will destroy […] Read more »
Time to Panic: The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.
… We are all living in delusion, unable to really process the news from science that climate change amounts to an all-encompassing threat. Indeed, a threat the size of life itself. How can we be this deluded? One answer comes from behavioral economics. The scroll of cognitive biases identified by […] Read more »
Climate Change among Democratic Voters in Early States
The following is a summary of findings from a survey of 1,765 likely 2020 Democratic primary voters and caucus goers in CA, IA, NH, NV, and SC. This survey was conducted jointly by Hart Research and Normington Petts for CAP Action Fund, Environmental Defense Action Fund and the League of […] Read more »
Americans are Increasingly ‘Alarmed’ About Global Warming
Six in ten Americans are now either “Alarmed” or “Concerned” about global warming. From 2013 to 2018, the proportion of “Alarmed” more than doubled. Our prior research has categorized Americans into six groups – Global Warming’s Six Americas – based on their climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. The “Alarmed” […] Read more »