Climate Change Beliefs, Parsed on Local Level, Paint Valuable Portrait

"A new statistical model grinds national poll data about climate change as finely as any pepper mill, and it can predict the public's climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy preferences right down to the level of each state, county and congressional district, its authors say.

But the arrival of this Big Data tool may not produce many big surprises.

It predicts, for example, that people from Trimble County, Kentucky are about half as likely as Manhattanites to believe that climate change is happening. That's about as big a shock as discovering that Senators Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer disagree on global warming. (McConnell, the majority leader, is from Kentucky, and Schumer, soon likely to become minority leader, is from New York.)"

John H. Cushman Jr. reports for InsideClimate News April 6, 2015.

SEE ALSO:

"Your Beliefs on Global Warming May Depend on Where You're From" (Mashable)

"What Americans Think About Climate Change in Seven Map" (Bloomberg)

"Poll: Americans Don’t Think Climate Change Will Affect Them Personally" (Slate)
 

Source: InsideClimate News, 04/07/2015