Talk:Public opinion on climate change

Reorganization

Did some reorganizing. Airborne84, think we could merge the last two paragraphs in "Political Identification" along with a little summarization. What do you think? ChyranandChloe (talk) 08:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry - haven't been here for a while. Been busy...

A case could be made to combine or leave as is. The second para. changes topic slightly in contrasting Europe/U.S. as opposed to the prev. which is mostly internal to Europe. With some wording changes, it could certainly be combined though. If you've got an idea, run with it! Think it's OK as is otherwise, but don't mind either way as long as we don't lose useful data. Cheers! Airborne84 (talk) 22:02, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

How about Public Opinion by year?

It seems like it would be helpful to show the changing tide of public opinion on AGW through the years. Recent polls have shown that belief in AGW theory has gone off a cliff, and almost no one supports taking action to prevent the supposed threat of global warming. [1] [2] [3] JettaMann (talk) 18:11, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

That would be tough to do. The lion's share of AGW scepticism comes from America, although not all certainly. Also, the first two articles you mentioned were primarily on how important the issue was, not whether it was true or not (although I did see a figure on "belief"). I'm not sure about the reliability of the "China" article either... Anyway, that's not to say it couldn't be done, and the "importance" of the issue is also part of public opinion. The key issue would be listing it by year, by topic (importance, belief, etc.), and by country. You could try continents or some other political "region" but that would be problematic. It could be useful, but it would probably be so large that it would require it's own page (e.g. "List of Countries..."), and linked to this one. It would also take a lot of time. But no one will tell you "don't do it"! Put it together and post it! Airborne84 (talk) 18:26, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

This more recent poll by Scientific America indicates that the public is moving away from the IPCC and AGW [4]67.176.220.219 (talk) 19:44, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

That is a link to vote in a Scientific American online survey as to whether Judith Curry has "gone off the scientific deep end, hurling baseless charges at a group of scientists" or not. --Nigelj (talk) 20:42, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Krosnick

Here is an interesting analysis of recent developments in public opinion on climate change in the United States.

Jon Krosnick is professor of communication, political science and psychology at Stanford University. Recently he presented a detailed, methodical analysis of a public opinion poll on US public attitudes to global warming--perhaps the first of its kind to take a scientific look at the effects of the CRU hacking incident on public perceptions of climate change. Krosnick's paper is discussed in the following articles:

• Some scientists misread poll data on global warming controversy, USA Today, Dan Vergano
• Stanford Researcher: Data Show That ClimateGate Has Had Limited Impact on Public Perceptions, Matthew Nisbet, Framing Science blog.
• Majority Of Americans Continue To Believe That Global Warming Is Real, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.

Krosnick's data was gathered in late 2009, but he says that from his experience US opinion is unlikely to shift much on a two-month scale. --TS 23:53, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Public Opinion in Europe

I am revertion one attempt to delete my comment on the EU surveys published in December 2009 at [5]. Theer were 3 surveys reported which show quite clearly that the percent of the respondees dropped substantially from 2008 to late 2009. The first histogram in the report shows the effect very clearly. Peterlewis (talk) 22:25, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

But I took this out [6] as unsourced William M. Connolley (talk) 15:23, 27 July 2010 (UTC)