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Yale Project on Climate Change Communication: Extreme Weather Report

Download the report here.

 

Extreme Weather, Climate & Preparedness Report

 

From the website: http://environment.yale.edu/climate/publications/extreme-weather-climate-preparedness/ 

Highlights:

82 percent of Americans report that they personally experienced one or more types of extreme weather or a natural disaster in the past year;

 

35 percent of all Americans report that they were personally harmed either a great deal or a moderate amount by one or more of these extreme weather events in the past year;

Over the past several years, Americans say the weather in the U.S. has been getting worse – rather than better – by a margin of over 2 to 1 (52% vs. 22%);

 

A large majority of Americans believe that global warming made several high profile extreme weather events worse, including the unusually warm winter of December 2011 and January 2012 (72%), record high summer temperatures in the U.S. in 2011 (70%), the drought in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 (69%), record snowfall in the U.S. in 2010 and 2011 (61%), the Mississippi River floods in the spring of 2011 (63%), and Hurricane Irene (59%);

 

Only 36 percent of Americans have a disaster emergency plan that all members of their family know about or an emergency supply kit in their home (37%).

The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication mission:

 

1) Advance public understanding and engagement with climate change science and solutions, and;

2) Catalyze action by the general public and leaders of government, business, academia, and the media through improved knowledge and understanding.