<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/r-aaa010218.php" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header class="" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;">Public Release: 2-Jan-2018</div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 17px;">Americans' attitudes about science in 2017: High confidence, low visibility</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px;">RESEARCH!AMERICA</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="">Scientists and the nation's scientific enterprise remain largely invisible to the public, according to national public opinion surveys commissioned by Research!America in 2017. Yet public perception of science is positive with a majority (67%) in agreement that public policies should be based on the best available science.</span></p></div></a><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">Complete release</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/r-aaa010218.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/r-aaa010218.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">=================================================<br class="">“Although we are only at an early stage in the projected trends of global warming, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">ecological responses to recent climate change are already clearly visible.”<br class=""><br class="">Walther et al. Ecological responses to recent climate change. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Nature, March 28, 2002<br class=""><br class="">==================================<br class="">"A surprising result is the high proportion of species responding to recent, relatively </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">mild climate change (global average warming of 0.6 C)."<br class=""><br class="">Camille Parmesan. Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change.<br class="">Annual Review of Ecology Evolution & Systematics 2006</div></div></div>
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