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20 Apr 2018 |
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Do Americans Understand That Global Warming Is Harmful to Human Health? Evidence From a National Survey
Global warming has significant negative consequences for human health, with some groups at greater risk than others. The extent to which the public is aware of these risks is unclear; the limited extant research has yielded discrepant findings.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Boomerangs versus Javelins: How Polarization Constrains Communication on Climate Change
Political communicators work under the assumption that information provision, such as framing, may influence audiences and elicit some desired attitudinal or behavioral shift. However, some political issues, such as climate change, have become polarized along party lines, with partisans seemingly impervious to disconfirming ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Vulnerable Populations Perceive Their Health as at Risk from Climate Change
Climate change is already taking a toll on human health, a toll that is likely to increase in coming decades. The relationship between risk perceptions and vulnerability to climate change’s health threats has received little attention, even though an understanding of the dynamics of adaptation among particularly susceptible ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing for Climate Change: A Perspective from Local Public Health Officers in California
Background: The most recent scientific findings show that even with significant emission reductions, some amount of climate change is likely inevitable. The magnitude of the climate changes will depend on future emissions and climate sensitivity. These changes will have local impacts, and a significant share of coping with these ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public health nurses’ knowledge and attitudes regarding climate change
BACKGROUND: Climate change affects human health, and health departments are urged to act to reduce the severity of these impacts. Yet little is known about the perspective of public health nurses—the largest component of the public health workforce—regarding their roles in addressing health impacts of climate change. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Improving Public Engagement With Climate Change: Five “Best Practice” Insights From Psychological Science
Despite being one of the most important societal challenges of the 21st century, public engagement with climate change currently remains low in the United States. Mounting evidence from across the behavioral sciences has found that most people regard climate change as a nonurgent and psychologically distant risk—spatially, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Californians in their Government
The PPIC Statewide Survey provides policymakers, the media, and the public with objective, advocacy-free information on the perceptions, opinions, and public policy preferences of California residents. Inaugurated in April 1998, this is the 124th PPIC Statewide Survey in a series that has generated a database of responses from more ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Poll Shows African Americans Strongly Back Climate Action
Two-thirds of African Americans believe global warming is a serious problem, they want action more than the population at large and they overwhelmingly support the Clean Power Plan to address the growing climate crisis, a major new poll released today shows.Fully 83 percent of African Americans back setting the first-ever limits on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Polling Memo and Summary for California Release: 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey
Latino Decisions in partnership with Earthjustice and GreenLatinos conducted a national survey of Latino registered voters and their attitudes toward the environment. The survey, fielded between June 24 and July 8, is based on a national sample of 1,200 Latino registered voters who were interviewed by landline, cell and on-line in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Politics and Global Warming, Spring 2016
This report offers our latest findings on how American voters across the political spectrum–Democrats, Independents, and Republicans and liberals, moderates, and conservatives–view global warming, how those views will affect their vote in the 2016 elections, and how they think citizens and government should address global warming.