There’s a new survey on public opinion on climate change in Canada, run by a team of six researchers, see SSRN paper, Montreal website, Yale website. The reporting of the results has been a total cock-up on the communication front. The results of the telephone poll were first reported as follows: This indicates that only … Continue reading
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Kahan and Tol on climate cluelessness
Americans are stupid… Two recent posts by Dan Kahan at his Cultural Cognition blog have revealed how completely clueless the American public is on climate change. In a cleverly designed survey, he asked some questions of the type “Most climate scientists believe human-caused warming will lead to flooding of some coastal areas, True/False” for which … Continue reading
Silly sociology (part 1)
A common theme at my old blog was the biased and shoddy work done by social scientists and psychologists relating to public opinion on climate change (examples here, here and here). In the last few weeks some more classics of this genre have been published. Examining the Effectiveness of Climate Change Frames in the Face … Continue reading
People of Earth, Your Attention Please
On the eve of COP21 the UN has uploaded onto YouTube a brief speech by Ban Ki-moon exhorting people everywhere to “push your governments to deliver what we need in Paris”. The words and the tone are eerily familiar Continue reading
Pew survey: China’s climate concern plummets
There’s a new Pew survey of opinion on climate change in different countries. There are quite a lot of interesting findings there. What struck me was a very sharp drop in the number of people who believe that “global climate change is a very serious problem” in China, from 41% in 2010 to just 18% in … Continue reading
