Climate Politics
Climate Change Measures Are a Lot More Popular Than Americans Think
Most Americans significantly underestimate the level of public support for government climate and clean energy policies, newly published research finds.
Protesters hold signs during a Global Climate Strike demonstration in Washington, D.C.
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Elke Weber became a research psychologist with cross-training in business so that she could investigate how individuals approach financial risks. But a chance opportunity at her first faculty job, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the late 1980s, threw her together with agricultural economists trying to understand if or how local farmers thought about climate change.
The surveys they conducted led to an insight that set Weber on an unforeseen path.