Skagit Climate Science Consortium: Using Local Polling to Provide Relevant Science

Speaker

Carol B. Macilroy, Skagit Climate Science ConsortiumFollow
Larry Wasserman, Swinomish Indian Tribal CommunityFollow

Presentation Abstract

The Skagit Climate Science Consortium (SC²) and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication partnered to conduct a public opinion poll in the spring of 2015 regarding Skagit County resident’s attitudes and perceptions regarding global warming. The effort, part of Yale’s renown 6 America’s Project, also is providing SC² critical information to help understand local concerns and beliefs about climate change in order to better provide relevant and timely climate science to a broader Skagit community. This presentation will provide an overview of SC²’s theory of change regarding the role of climate science in supporting local communities as they seek to increase their climate resilience and show the results of the polling which confirm both the need for and interest in climate information. This informative talk will provide cutting edge thinking about where and how climate science can be used to move beyond partisanship and a broken discourse to provide locally relevant information to a public concerned about their future.

Session Title

Building coastal ocean social-ecological resilience in the Salish Sea: what does it mean and how can it be done?

Conference Track

People

Conference Name

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Document Type

Event

Start Date

2016 12:00 AM

End Date

2016 12:00 AM

Location

2016SSEC

Type of Presentation

Oral

Genre/Form

conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)

Contributing Repository

Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.

Subjects – Topical (LCSH)

Global warming--Washington (State)--Skagit County--Public opinion

Geographic Coverage

Skagit County (Wash.); Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)

Comments

Yale's effort to downscale national opinion polling (Skagit was used for county validation, you will note the tremendous variance in what the model predicted and Skagit county results on SC² website. Yale will be updating the model based on validation spring 2016): http://environment.yale.edu/poe/v2014/

SC²'s general website: http://www.skagitclimatescience.org

SC² Skagit County polling overview: http://www.skagitclimatescience.org/polling-deck/

Rights

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Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf