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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of global warming. Public perception is examined, as well as the media and political forces that shape it. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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means of gauging opinion and more significantly, behaviors related to global warming beliefs. However, this paper proposes a new model of behavior that includes factors such as perceived risk, an
individuals sense of personal efficacy, as well as the perception of whether or not ones personal actions have any impact upon global warming. The paper ultimately finds that those individuals
who already participate in political behaviors and have a strong sense of self-responsibility for environmental issues tend to consider global warming a more potent threat. Another 2007 study by Corfee-Morlot,
Maslin, & Burgess, published in the journal, "Philosophical Transactions" attempted to look at the very reasons why global warming has become such a hot topic in public discourse over the
course of the last decade, when the science that supports the hypothesis of global warming has been available for many decades. In doing this, they examine how data and information
from the hard science community intersects with lay people, and ultimately with government. The paper ultimately relates the finding that the increased emphasis on global warming in the last few
years has occurred as the result of socially controlled networks of information distribution (i.e. - the internet and social media) that are not reliant upon the motives of corporate newscasters.
As for the actual opinions of the American public in terms of numbers, one might look at reports such as the one published by Dr. Leiserowitz of Yale University
in 2011. This report found that roughly three quarters of the American public believe in the phenomenon of global warming, yet interesting, just half of Americans believe in the existence
of overwhelming scientific evidence attesting to that fact. In other words, it seems to be the case that for a significant percentage of Americans willing to believe in climate change,
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