HR: 13:55h
AN: ED23C-02 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: What the American Public Really Thinks About Climate Change: New Evidence on Amelioration Strategies
AU: * Krosnick, J A
EM: krosnick@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, 455 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
AB: On Capital Hill, a great deal of effort is being devoted to crafting legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in coming years. These legislative efforts are pursuing many different reduction strategies. But to date, the American public has not been asked to evaluate these various policies to weigh in on which they favor and which they oppose. Without such evidence, it may be difficult for policy-makers to prevent a situation where a piece of legislation passes in Congress but is later met by strong public resistance, as occurred twice on immigration recently, leading to the death of the bills. Professor Krosnick has been conducting surveys since 1995 exploring how Americans think about climate change and what policy solutions they prefer. This talk will present some of Professor Krosnick's most recent evidence.
UR: http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/krosnick.html
DE: 6620 Science policy (0485)
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting