Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The following tables detail public knowledge about science by education, age, gender, race and ethnicity for each of the nine questions in the science knowledge index. These tables are followed by summary statistics showing the results of a series of statistical models predicting people’s beliefs about climate change and their views of climate scientists from […]
This is the first in a series of reports that details public views on science and scientists in areas that connect with American’s daily lives. This report focuses on climate, energy and environment including the relationship between people’s beliefs about these issues and their behaviors related to the environment in everyday life.
Americans’ concerns about climate change have put energy production of fossil fuels and the carbon gases these fuels emit at the center of public discussions about climate and the environment. Those debates coupled with long-standing economic pressures to decrease reliance on other countries for energy needs have raised attention to renewable forms of energy including […]