NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/08/30
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-08-30 16:45.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A new poll investigates public opinion on climate change in the United Kingdom.
POLLING CLIMATE IN THE UK A new poll commissioned by Carbon Brief investigates public opinion about climate change in the United Kingdom. Given the choice of three claims about the occurrence of climate change, 56% of respondents preferred "Climate change is happening and is mostly caused by humans," 37% preferred "Climate change is happening and is mostly caused by natural processes," and 7% preferred "Climate change is not happening." Given the choice of three claims about the seriousness of climate change, 68% of respondents preferred "Climate change could be a serious problem and we need to act now to try to prevent it happening in the future, 16% preferred "Climate change could be a serious problem but we don't need to worry about it for now," and 16% preferred "Climate change will probably never be a serious problem." The poll was conducted on-line for Carbon Brief by Opinium Research from July 30 to August 1, 2013; 2002 residents of the United Kingdom were surveyed, and the results were weighted to nationally representative criteria. Carbon Brief is a UK blog that reports on the latest developments in climate science and energy policy and produces briefings, analyses, and factchecks. For Carbon Brief's blog post on its poll, visit: http://ncse.com/news/2013/08/polling-climate-uk-0014997 Thanks for reading. And don't forget to visit NCSE's website -- http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on evolution and climate education and threats to them. -- Sincerely, Glenn Branch Deputy Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. 420 40th Street, Suite 2 Oakland, CA 94609-2509 510-601-7203 x305 fax: 510-601-7204 800-290-6006 branch@ncse.com http://ncse.com Check out NCSE's new blog, Science League of America: http://ncse.com/blog Read Reports of the NCSE on-line: http://reports.ncse.com Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: http://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd http://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! http://ncse.com/join
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