Posted on September 16, 2011

National Survey of American Public Opinion on Global Warming

Stanford University with Ipsos and Reuters http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5337 (press release) http://www.ipsos-na.com/download/pr.aspx?id=10987 (poll) [From Press Release] Our survey shows that more Americans today believe that global warming is occurring compared to just a year ago. However, at the same time, the skeptics have become more certain in their beliefs that global warming is not happening. The recent … Continue reading »

Converging Currents in Climate-Relevant Conservation: Water, Infrastructure, and Institutions

PLoS Biology (2011, v9 n9: e1001159. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001159) / by John H. Matthews, Bart A.J. Wickel and Sarah Freeman http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001159 [From a Climate Wire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd] …In a paper published this month in the journal PLoS Biology, Matthews and his co-authors argue that investment and management decisions risk exacerbating climate-initiated changes, which … Continue reading »