While few Americans regard the environment as the nation’s foremost challenge, most say it should be a priority, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. And more than half say global warming is caused by human behavior, the highest level ever recorded by the national poll. CONT. Marjorie […] Read more »
The Climate Swerve
Americans appear to be undergoing a significant psychological shift in our relation to global warming. I call this shift a climate “swerve,” borrowing the term used recently by the Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt to describe a major historical change in consciousness that is neither predictable nor orderly. … Of […] Read more »
Who are the climate change deniers?
Nine percent of Americans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say the earth’s climate is not changing. 24% say there won’t be any climate change effects, like rising sea levels and more intense storms, in their own lifetimes. These climate change deniers are better-off than average, more conservative, and more Republican. […] Read more »
When Did Republicans Start Hating the Environment?
It’s one of those facts that sweeps you back into an alien, almost unrecognizable era. On July 9, 1970, Republican President Richard Nixon announced to Congress his plans to create the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By the end of that year, both agencies were […] Read more »
Is Climate Change Real? Opinion Depends On Which Political Party You Belong To
It might seem strange that the issue of man-made global warming, or climate change, has become a partisan matter. … The scientific community has reached near unanimous agreement: The vast majority of scientists who deal with climate-related issues, and virtually all scientific organizations, agree that climate change is a man-made […] Read more »
Public Divided on Feds Requiring Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
An announcement this week from an environmental group claims that “about 80 percent of people in both red and blue districts believe that global warming is real and that we should be doing more to fight it.” Other recent polls by Quinnipiac, NBC/Wall Street Journal, and ABC/Washington Post also claim […] Read more »