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Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery 7
Posted 2 weeks, 3 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.
No wonder public and media seem uniformed 0
Posted 1 month ago
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.
Letter from Europe

On climate, leading from the front (for a change) 6
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Something unusual seems to be happening in the struggle to wake the world up to the reality of climate change. Almost unprecedented for an environmental issue, national leaders appear to be out ahead of public opinion in their respective countries.
Money talks

Buy green, forget Congress—or not 11
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The director of a new poll says concerned Americans see themselves as consumers, not citizens.
Save the world? Yes or No?

Citizens want their leaders to make climate a higher priority, new poll finds 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks 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!
Why I LIke to Do Battle With the Deniers

The climate science fight club 14
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I like to engage in the fight with global warming deniers every once in a while as a sort of bloodsport, a fight club. It gets the blood flowing, like a good workout at the gym or a big cup of coffee.
It’s got a ring to it, no?

Ditch ‘warming’ and start talking ‘deteriorating atmosphere,’ PR firm says 14
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Extensive public opinion research from ecoAmerica suggests new climate talking points and other strategies to whet the appetites of on-the-fence Americans.
The Pitch

Think of the children, or think of your ski trip: Two ways to tell the climate story 5
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
What’s going to prompt the average American, or the average citizen in the developed world, to demand action on climate change? Is it the appeal to morality -- "millions will die and be displaced unless we act"? Or is it appeals to self-interest -- "your favorite ski resorts may be snowless very soon"?
A tale of two Washingtons

EPA to hold public hearings on ‘climate endangerment’ in DC, Seattle 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The U.S. EPA is holding two public hearings next week on the "climate endangerment" finding -- one in D.C. and one in Seattle. Find out how to make your voice heard.
It’s time for climate policy.

American Public Wants Climate Policy 1
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
New Pew survey numbers indicating strong public support for the essential ingredients of a national cap and trade program. Who cares if people can't name the policy -- they know what they want.
fuzzy geometry

The environmental inverted pyramid, corrected 1
Posted 6 months, 4 weeks 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.
In the New Yorker

Eustace Tilley says ‘Screw Earth Day’ 6
Posted 7 months ago
Elizabeth Kolbert, the magazine's star journalist covering the climate crisis, has a very interesting essay on Earth Day in which she bemoans the fact that Americans seem to be unenthusiastic about the environment in general and confronting global warming in specific.
Deny this!

Survey says: Americans concerned about global warming, want policy change, like money 1
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
A survey that is both heartening with respect to the public perceptions of global warming (and needs for policy response thereto) and frustrating for what they suggest about the policy conversation in Washington.
From ‘the wave’ to a groundswell

Enlisting sports fans in the green movement begins by understanding them 2
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Talk of “harnessing” the passion of sports showed up everywhere at the World Conference on Sport and the Environment, but one marketer moved past the cliché and made a case that athletes are in a great position to promote environmentally friendly behavior.