Many studies have shown a general decline of public concern about climate change or vice versa a rise in public climate-change skepticism, in particular in the U.S. and other Anglo-Saxon countries.
Oreskes tracked the history of "active, disinformation campaigns" in derailing progress on public climate awareness.
The survey questions and response items are based on previous studies in the area of public climate perceptions (Lorenzoni and Pidgeon 2006; Maibach et al. 2009; EC 2014).
Given the need for reliance on facts in the public climate debate, I am issuing the following statement.
Even before Mr. Bush spoke tonight, his aides and supporters had begun an effort, also clear in his comments, to create a public climate in which Mr. Gore would feel pressured to concede.
This empirical analysis provides a basic understanding of how to address thorny questions in a nascent process of designing public climate policy in Vietnam.
[Swaps] should be separate from and in addition to the public climate finance that developed countries are responsible for providing under the UNFCCC [Green Climate Fund].
It has become recognized that data sharing enables research, accelerates translation, safeguards good research conduct, and helps inform policy and regulation, thereby fostering a public climate in which research can flourish.
Similarly, ecologists who found out that new planning laws were harming wildlife would not be able to raise the issue in public, while climate scientists whose findings undermined government energy policy could have work suppressed.
Director, Pegasys, a niche management consultancy working in public transport, climate and natural resources.
The researchers, experts in public health, climate change and atmospheric chemistry modeling, focused only on adult mortality for the study.
