Americans Divided Over Direction of Bidens Climate Change Policies

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans view climate, environmental and energy issues. For this analysis, we surveyed 10,282 U.S. adults from May 2 to 8, 2022. Everyone who took part in the survey is a member of the Center's American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way, nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories

Field observations of soil temperature and water tension feedback effects on needle ice nights

Numerous laboratory studies have indicated that thermal gradients may produce appreciable soil water movement in the absence of a strong suction field. In addition the soil water flow and thermal properties are physically interrelated. This paper presents field data taken during needle ice events at Vancouver, Canada, and yields an indication of the magnitude of interaction between the thermal and water flow properties. This feedback determines the state of soil frost hazard in a location where damage to plant material is produced by ice frost hazard in a location where damage to plant material is produced by ice needle growth. Further apparently anomalous interruption in the normal parabolic temperature-time pattern during radiation events is interpreted as the product of water flow down a thermal gradient. Zahlreiche Laboratoriumsstudien deuteten darauf hin, daß thermische Gradienten selbst bei Abwesenheit starker Saugkräfte bedeutsame Wasserbewegungen im Boden hervorrufen können. Überdies stehen die Strömung des Bodenwassers und die thermischen Eigenschaften des Bodens damit in physikalischem Zusammenhang. Die vorliegende Arbeit enthält Meßdaten, die während der Bildung von Nadeleis in Vancouver, Kanada, gewonnen wurden und größenordnungsmäßige Beziehungen zwischen Wärme- und Wasserstrom im Boden angeben. Die Rückkopplung zwischen den beiden Strömen bestimmt die Bodenfrostgefahr an Orten, wo Pflanzenschäden durch Eisnadelbildung hervorgerufen werden. Eine offensichtlich abnormale Unterbrechung des normalen Temperatur-Zeit-Verhältnisses während des Ausstrahlungsvorganges wird als Effekt der Wasserströmung entsprechend einem einem thermischen Gradienten interpretiert.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/41661/1/703_2005_Article_BF02247747.pd

Americans Divided on Whether Recent Science Protests Will Benefit Scientists' Causes

In the wake of April's marches for science and climate in Washington and around the country, Americans are divided in their support of the events' goals and their sense of whether it will make a difference. In particular, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that most Democrats and younger adults are convinced that these public events will help the causes of scientists. By contrast, Republicans and older adults believe the marches will not raise public support for scientists, aid efforts to increase government funding of science, enhance the role of scientists in policy debates or lead to increased efforts to combat global climate change

Increasing Public Criticism, Confusion Over COVID-19 Response in U.S.

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Optimism about Black Progress Declines Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class

African Americans see a widening gulf between the values of middle class and poor blacks, and nearly four-in ten say that because of the diversity within their community, blacks can no longer be thought of as a single race, a new Pew Research Center survey has found. The survey also finds blacks less upbeat about the state of black progress now than at any time since 1983. Looking backward, just one-in-five blacks say things are better for blacks now than they were five years ago. Looking ahead, fewer than half of all blacks (44%) say they think life for blacks will get better in the future, down from the 57% who said so in a 1986 survey

Crusading for Moral Authority: Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Science

Numerous studies show biblicist Christianity, religiosity, and conservative political identity are strong predictors of Americans holding skeptical attitudes toward publicly controversial aspects of science, such as human evolution. We show that Christian nationalism—meaning the desire to see particularistic and exclusivist versions of Christian symbols, values, and policies enshrined as the established religion of the United States—is a strong and consistent predictor of Americans’ attitudes about science above and beyond other religious and political characteristics. Further, a majority of the overall effect of political ideology on skepticism about the moral authority of science is mediated through Christian nationalism, indicating that political conservatives are more likely to be concerned with particular aspects of science primarily because they are more likely to be Christian nationalists. Likewise, substantial proportions of the well-documented associations between religiosity and biblical “literalism” with views of science are mediated through Christian nationalism. Because Christian nationalism seeks to establish a particular and exclusivist vision of Christianity as the dominant moral order, adherents feel threatened by challenges to the epistemic authority undergirding that order, including by aspects of science perceived as challenging the supremacy of biblicist authority