Past News: 1998
American Opinion on Global Warming The Impact of the Fall 1997 Debate »
Extensive media attention to global warming and the surrounding debate during the fall of 1997 focused public attention on the issue. Both before and afterward, most Americans believed that global warming exists, is bad for people,...
By Jon A. Krosnick, Allyson L. Holbrook, Penny S. Visser,
The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion »
Although global warming has been the subject of some public discussion since the turn of the 20th Century, it was pushed into the national spotlight during the fall of 1997, when President Bill Clinton’s administration instigated a...
By Jon A. Krosnick, Allyson L. Holbrook, Penny S. Visser,