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| Americans are mostly unaware that climate change has vast global health impacts. Photo: Yale Project on Climate Change Communication/ George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. |
by Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch,
15 December 2014
When the average American thinks about how climate change-caused global warming could affect their health, what do they think of? Not much, apparently, according to a new study,Public Perceptions of the Health Impacts of Global Warming, just released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. The study is based on the results of a survey, Climate Change in the American Mind. The researchers found that Americans largely haven’t thought about the health impacts of global warming at all.
“Few Americans have thought much about the health consequences of global warming,” they said. “Asked how often, if at all, before taking this survey they had thought about how global warming might affect people’s health, six in 10 said they had given the issue little or no thought. Only one in 10 said they had given the issue a ‘great deal’ of thought and only about two in 10 (22 percent) said they had thought about it a ‘moderate amount.'”
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When the average American thinks about how climate change-caused global warming could affect their health, what do they think of? Not much, apparently, according to a new study,Public Perceptions of the Health Impacts of Global Warming, just released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. The study is based on the results of a survey, Climate Change in the American Mind. The researchers found that Americans largely haven’t thought about the health impacts of global warming at all.
“Few Americans have thought much about the health consequences of global warming,” they said. “Asked how often, if at all, before taking this survey they had thought about how global warming might affect people’s health, six in 10 said they had given the issue little or no thought. Only one in 10 said they had given the issue a ‘great deal’ of thought and only about two in 10 (22 percent) said they had thought about it a ‘moderate amount.'”