Donald Trump’s first overseas trip as president will take him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican, then to Brussels for a major NATO meeting and back to Italy for a G7 summit. The world is watching with particular interest to see how his administration, subject to serial and serious […] Read more »
Should the US stay in the Paris Agreement? A majority of Democrats and Republicans think so
Protestors gathered in D.C. on April 29 for People’s Climate March. 9602574@N02/flickr, CC BY Ed Maibach, George Mason University; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University, and Jennifer Marlon, Yale University In December 2015, officials from nearly every country in the world met in Paris to negotiate a global agreement to limit […] Read more »
Americans Divided on Whether Recent Science Protests Will Benefit Scientists’ Causes
In the wake of last month’s marches for science and climate in Washington and around the country, Americans are divided in their support of the events’ goals and their sense of whether it will make a difference. In particular, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that most Democrats and […] Read more »
Majorities of Americans in Every State Support Participation in the Paris Agreement
In December 2015, officials from 197 countries (nearly every country in the world) met in Paris at the United Nations Climate Change Conference and negotiated a global agreement to limit global warming. On Earth Day, April 2016, the U.S. and 174 other countries signed the agreement, with most of the […] Read more »
Bret Stephens and Climate Change
The former Wall Street Journal writer Bret Stephens has a column today to kick off his new digs at the New York Times that meanders into climate change territory and has raised some hackles. In the piece, he talks about how public opinion on climate change is soft, which some […] Read more »
Majority of Americans oppose President Trump’s proposed cuts to EPA’s budget, withdrawing from Paris Climate Treaty
According to a new POLITICO/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll, 60% of the American public as a whole opposes President Trump’s recently proposed 31% cut in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, constituents of the two major political parties are very far apart on this issue. […] Read more »