Climate Change

This is a good, compelling, short read on the effects of climate change, submitted by one of your colleagues.

This town in Alaska is slipping into the sea.

After our discussion yesterday, I was curious to see what recent polling data says about American's belief in climate change.  You can view this recent report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, a polling center that focuses on public attitudes.  This center publishes a lot of polling data, much of it broken down by state.  Surely, the focus on particular state opinions is a reflection of the politics of climate change.  This is data from April of this year.  Here are three interesting pieces:

• The number of Americans who believe climate change is happening runs around 60-70%.  Interestingly, that has changed very little since 2008.

•  Fewer Americans think they have anything to do with this issue.

•  Perhaps most importantly, 30% of the population seems open to changing their minds about this issue.