polls
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Climate denial is getting more popular. It’s probably Trump’s fault.
The number of Americans who say global warming is happening shrank over the past year.
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Majority of Americans want strong leadership on climate change
In a new poll, many say the next president should do more than Obama has.
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Why climate polls don’t mean much
People involved in climate politics are always using polls to show that the public supports their policy positions. But polls actually tell us very little about how politics will play out in the real world.
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Americans disagree on everything, forever
Not literally. We all agree on America being cool. But a Pew study indicates that on many issues – like the environment – Americans have never been further apart.
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People sitting in warm rooms are more likely to believe in global warming
All this time we’ve been trying to make the public understand climate change using science and logic, and it turns out we could have just made everyone wear sweaters. People’s beliefs about climate change are closely tied to the temperature they’ve recently experienced — so much so that, as Justin Gillis of the New York […]
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New poll shows Keystone XL, like energy generally, a winnable fight for Dems
Democrats can win the public opinion battle on Keystone XL, but they have to fight it.
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‘Brutal logic’ and climate communications
In a couple of posts last week — here and here — I laid out the brutal logic implied by the latest climate science (with credit to scientist Kevin Anderson for stripping away the rosy assumptions hiding in many of today’s common climate scenarios). To sum up: a rise in temperature of 2 degrees C […]
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Americans are smarter than they look about extreme weather
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has officially stated that climate change will lead to more extreme weather events — we all sorta knew that, but it's nice to have confirmation. It turns out, though, that we weren't the only ones who knew. A survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication found that […]
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Public support for clean energy isn’t enough; passion and money win in politics
Stephen Lacey flags a poll that shows that the public feels positively about clean energy and, if given the choice, would prefer to pursue clean energy over fossil fuels. Similar positive results have been found, again and again and again, in polling about air pollution rules and the EPA. These results are notable and […]