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Singin' in the rain

What to make of the new climate poll 38
Posted 3 days, 5 hours ago There's a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out on climate change; Juliet Eilperin's got a good piece up about it (despite the terrible headline, for which she is not responsible). Having watched this story bounce around, I'm frustrated yet again by how these polls are discussed. Here's how I would write the lede to the story.
TIME TO TOON IN

Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery 7
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago Getting Americans to wake up to the reality of climate change is no easy task. But experts at Columbia University believe a mix of psychology, anthropology, and behavioral economics can help, and they've written a guide with cartoons showing how.
CNN Poll: 6 in 10 independents support cap-and-trade 0
Posted 1 month ago
They mean well

What does the Pew poll mean? 5
Posted 1 month ago A Pew poll shows declining belief in climate change. Don't panic.
Don't pewk, but...

Poll finds sharp rise in global warming skepticism 31
Posted 1 month ago A new Pew poll finds a significant drop in the number of Americans who believe global warming is happening, is human-caused, and is a serious problem. Some possible explanations.
Money talks

Buy green, forget Congress—or not 11
Posted 3 months ago
The director of a new poll says concerned Americans see themselves as consumers, not citizens.
POLLING OUR CHAIN

Surprise, surprise: NWF-sponsored poll finds support for climate bill 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Seventy-one percent of likely voters say they like the American Clean Energy and Security Act passed by the House of Representatives earlier this summer, according to a new poll conducted on behalf of the National Wildlife Federation. That's great! But Grist wants to see all the demographic data collected by the survey.
Save the world? Yes or No?

Citizens want their leaders to make climate a higher priority, new poll finds 1
Posted 4 months ago
Americans showed the least interest of 19 countries in asking their government to make climate change a higher priority. But there's encouraging news too!
Hint: not much

What can we learn from polls on cap-and-trade? 3
Posted 5 months ago
A new Washington Post-ABC poll reveals that majorities of the American people believe in climate change, are concerned about it, are willing to change their lifestyles and pay more to address it, and want the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases. (Sorry, Newt!) They are, however, ambivalent on cap-and-trade. But it's dangerous to take too much from these cap-and-trade questions because most people don't know what cap-and-trade is. Only 24 percent of people even know it's related to the environment.
Survey says

Americans ranked as world’s least green consumers—again 3
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
With NatGeo releasing the results of its annual Greendex survey today, I'd like to point out that polls like this are really an opportunity for America to shine.
fuzzy geometry

The environmental inverted pyramid, corrected 1
Posted 7 months ago
538.com's Nate Silver says a fascinating new poll shows American's are concerned about climate change "only in the abstract." He's partly right.
The triumph of reason

Major survey finds overwhelming public support for action on global warming and clean energy 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Yale and George Mason Universities surveyed 2,164 Americans last fall about their "climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and actions." Details will be posted at midnight Tuesday here. Here is a first look:
Americans care about global warming, but don’t see how it connects to other environmental problems 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Understanding polling in terms of core vs. general public 13
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
On the prospects for broad public understanding of climate science 10
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Poll: How likely is it that global warming will destroy human civilization within the next century? 0
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago