Two-thirds of Floridians Concerned About Climate Change
and Don’t Feel Government is Doing Enough to Address Impacts
“Since the early 1990s, the climate change question at the national-level has
become increasingly polarized along party lines,” said
Colin Polsky
, Ph.D., director of the FAU Center for Environmental Studies and lead author of the study. “Yet in recent years a growing number of states and cities have taken meaningful actions to recognize, study, and address climate change. These actions are largely consolidated in blue-leaning states, unlike Florida, and the national-level discourse remains polarized along partisan lines.”
One take-away from the study is that a large majority of Floridians favor teaching about climate change causes, consequences, and solutions in Florida K-12 classrooms (68%).