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The American Association for the Advancement of Science adopted an official statement on climate change in 2006: "The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society. ... The pace of change and the evidence of harm have increased markedly over the last five ...
Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States," a massive new government report says.
There have been debates on the best responses to slow global warming, and their timing. The debates are around the specific actions for climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, or climate action in general. See for example: Economic analysis of climate change; Climate change denial#Delaying climate change mitigation measures
The same survey resulted in a different study, "Climate Change in the Indian Mind" [163] showing that 41% of respondents had either never heard of the term global warming, or did not know what it meant while 7% claimed to know "a lot" about global warming. When provided with a description of global warming and what it might entail, 72% of the ...
Story at a glance A new Economist/YouGov poll documents adults’ perceptions about the threat of climate change and whether current actions being taken are enough to meet the challenge. A total ...
Research shows 70% of Americans think global warming will hurt future generations and 62% say Congress should do more about it. ... worried" about climate change. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans support ...
Cautious: people that have heard about climate change but are not sure what causes it and are "not very worried about it". Disengaged: people that do not know much about climate change. Doubtful: people who think that climate change probably does not exist or it is not man made, but are not sure. They consider climate change as "a low risk".
As a record-setting summer comes to a close, nearly nine out of ten Americans say they're feeling the direct effects of the changing climate, according to a new Associated Press/NORC poll ...