In advance of the climate talks that opened today in Doha, Qatar, the European Union hedged on whether it would renew climate funding that will run out by the end of this year, drawing waves of criticism from interested nongovernmental organizations.
The new data further renews climate change concerns heightened by the unprecedented destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in late October.
Year exhibits significant and positive effects on both renew and climate.
The interactions have a similar character for both renew and climate.
Age, education, and party, on the other hand, do affect renew and climate, and in similar directions for both dependent variables.
The dummy variable election is coded 0 for the pre-election August stage and 1 for the post-election November/December stage, but this timing makes no difference in predicting either renew or climate.
Table 2 Respondent characteristics and survey timing as predictors of high priority for renewable energy (renew), or think climate change is happening now, caused mainly by humans (climate).
As global temperatures rise, any rational person should welcome these industrial giants' renewed interest in climate change.
Despite the renewed attention to climate change following Hurricane Sandy and record-high temperatures in the continental United States last year, there is little sign that the politics of the issue will get any easier for Mr. Obama.
In his second Inaugural Address and his recent State of the Union speech, the president has renewed discussion of climate change, citing record temperatures and destructive storms fed by growing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
At this critical juncture, we need a united and ambitious Europe to seize the historic opportunity that exists from these policy changes in the US and China, and to provide renewed leadership on climate change.
