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Alarmed and Concerned: Survey Looks at How Americans Engage With Global Warming
How do you feel about global warming? New public opinion research maps the connections Americans feel to the issue along a spectrum from most concerned and motivated to least concerned and motivated. The majority of those surveyed, 51 percent, say they are “alarmed” or “concerned.” Here’s a visual breakdown after the jump:
The report, “Global Warming’s Six Americas,” is from the Yale Project on Climate Change, the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, and the Center for American progress.
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I often have a problem with graphics that substitute flash for content. This graphic is not particularly flashy, but suffers the common problem that one doesn’t know whether the quantity corresponds to the linear dimension or the area of a figure. Actually, it’s worse: the chart claims that proportion is represented as area, but comparing the percentages clearly shows that the proportion is represented as the diameter. As a result, the ratio of “concerned” (33%) to “dismissive” (7%), which should be a factor less than five (and is, in the diameter of the circles) ends up looking like a factor of more than 20 in area. Not an promising introduction to this report.
May 19th, 2009 at 12:02 pmDon – nice catch, eyeballing it, it looks like you are right.
I am wondering how much the response and distribution would change if the global warming wasn’t presented alone but rather coupled with the impact on global health (such as vector borne diseases)? And perhaps more importantly what is the general knowledge about this type of potential combined impact. For those who were least concerned is it because they can in part dismiss it as not impacting them personally, whereas if they knew there was a chance their geographic region could be more susceptible to disease would this change their perception?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:29 pm