Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk: Surveys of the United States, Canada and Malta Abstract...
2010 Articles
Public Perceptions of Climate Change as a Health Risk: Surveys of the United States
We used data from nationally representative surveys conducted in the United States, Canada and Malta between 2008 and...
Americans’ Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes: June 2010
This report includes measures of public global warming beliefs, risk perceptions, personal importance, information...
Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies: June 2010
A national survey of Americans’ support and opposition to climate and energy policies. The survey was fielded from May...
Americans’ Actions to Conserve Energy, Reduce Waste, and Limit Global Warming: June 2010
This study, conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for...
Reframing Climate Change as a Public Health Issue: An Exploratory Study of Public Reactions
Climate change is taking a toll on human health, and some leaders in the public health community have urged their...
Global Warming’s Six Americas in June 2010
This report extends and updates an ongoing program of research analyzing Americans’ interpretations of and responses...
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul Edwards [Book Review]
For communication scholars, the oft-cited dynamics of the climate debates are all too familiar: media covering science...
Race, Ethnicity and Public Responses to Climate Change
In this report we examine public support for climate change and energy policies among different racial and ethnic...
The Climate Change Generation? Survey Analysis of the Perceptions and Beliefs of Young Americans: 2010
This report reveals that Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are, for the most part, split on the issue of global...
America’s TV Weathercasters as Informal Climate Change Educators
Our surveys of the public have shown that many Americans are looking to their local TV weathercasters for information...
Climate Change in the American Mind: Americans’ Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in January 2010
This report indicates that public concern about global warming, and public trust in a range of information sources,...
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