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02/11/2020	The Washington Post	The Energy 202: Florida Republicans have added the words 'climate change' to their vocabularies -- and to legislation Of 1,045 Floridians surveyed by Florida Atlantic University in October, 56 percent agreed climate change is real and caused by people, including 44 percent of Republicans and 70 percent of Democrats.
01/21/2020	The Sun Sentinel	Editorial: Florida provides perfect backdrop for GOP to offer serious climate action According to a statewide survey released by Florida Atlantic University last fall, more than two-thirds of Floridians say that climate change has them concerned about the well-being of future generations in Florida and do not feel government is doing enough to address the impacts.
11/01/2019	The Miami Beach Times	Two-Thirds of Floridians Concerned About Climate Change According to FAU "In my experience in southeast Florida for the past five years, the private sector leaders are, regardless of party affiliation, not only actively concerned about challenges linked with our changing climate, but also committed to meaningful actions," Polsky said.
11/01/2019	The Sun Sentinel	Floridians no longer have luxury to pretend climate change isn't real \| Fred Grimm FAU reported that 68 percent of Floridians worry that global warming threatened "the well-being of future generations in Florida."
10/29/2019	PRNewswire.com	Two-thirds of Floridians Concerned About Climate Change and Feel Government Isn't Doing Enough to Address Impacts The first-ever Florida Climate Resilience Survey conducted by the Florida Atlantic University Center for Environmental Studies (CES) in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and the Business and Economics Polling Initiative (BEPI) in FAU's College of Business.
10/28/2019	The Invading Sea	Two-thirds of Floridians are concerned about climate change and feel governments aren't doing enough to address the effects "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."
10/28/2019	Sun Sentinel	Majority of Floridians recognize climate change as a threat, FAU poll says While a Republican-Democrat split about climate change exists in Florida, it's not as pronounced as in the rest of the nation. "Nationally we tend to expect and see Republicans score much, much lower on that question than independents or Democrats," said Colin Polsky, director of the FAU Center for Environmental Studies, who led the effort. "The results from the Florida survey show much less difference."
10/28/2019	Tampa Bay Times	Majority of Floridians call climate change a threat, FAU poll says The partisan divide is less pronounced in a state already grappling with rising seas and stronger storms.
10/28/2018	WLRN	The Sunshine Economy: King Tides And High Water WLRN visited five South Floridians living with king tides. Listen to the story and follow their path on an interactive map.
10/08/2018	WLRN	During Peak King Tide Season, FAU Researchers Talk About Sea-Level Rise Resiliency From CES' event on Oct. 8, "Transforming a wetter Florida into a better Florida: Sea-level rise resilience collaborations" project showcase, co-hosted by FAU, Congressman Ted Deutch Florida Sea Grant Citizens Climate Lobby and American Flood Coalition.

02/11/2020

The Washington Post

The Energy 202: Florida Republicans have added the words 'climate change' to their vocabularies -- and to legislation
Of 1,045 Floridians surveyed by Florida Atlantic University in October, 56 percent agreed climate change is real and caused by people, including 44 percent of Republicans and 70 percent of Democrats.

01/21/2020

The Sun Sentinel

Editorial: Florida provides perfect backdrop for GOP to offer serious climate action
According to a statewide survey released by Florida Atlantic University last fall, more than two-thirds of Floridians say that climate change has them concerned about the well-being of future generations in Florida and do not feel government is doing enough to address the impacts.

11/01/2019

The Miami Beach Times

Two-Thirds of Floridians Concerned About Climate Change According to FAU
"In my experience in southeast Florida for the past five years, the private sector leaders are, regardless of party affiliation, not only actively concerned about challenges linked with our changing climate, but also committed to meaningful actions," Polsky said.

11/01/2019

The Sun Sentinel

Floridians no longer have luxury to pretend climate change isn't real | Fred Grimm
FAU reported that 68 percent of Floridians worry that global warming threatened "the well-being of future generations in Florida."

10/29/2019

PRNewswire.com

Two-thirds of Floridians Concerned About Climate Change and Feel Government Isn't Doing Enough to Address Impacts
The first-ever Florida Climate Resilience Survey conducted by the Florida Atlantic University Center for Environmental Studies (CES) in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and the Business and Economics Polling Initiative (BEPI) in FAU's College of Business.

10/28/2019

The Invading Sea

Two-thirds of Floridians are concerned about climate change and feel governments aren't doing enough to address the effects
"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."

10/28/2019

Sun Sentinel

Majority of Floridians recognize climate change as a threat, FAU poll says
While a Republican-Democrat split about climate change exists in Florida, it's not as pronounced as in the rest of the nation. "Nationally we tend to expect and see Republicans score much, much lower on that question than independents or Democrats," said Colin Polsky, director of the FAU Center for Environmental Studies, who led the effort. "The results from the Florida survey show much less difference."

10/28/2019

Tampa Bay Times

Majority of Floridians call climate change a threat, FAU poll says
The partisan divide is less pronounced in a state already grappling with rising seas and stronger storms.

10/28/2018

WLRN

The Sunshine Economy: King Tides And High Water
WLRN visited five South Floridians living with king tides. Listen to the story and follow their path on an interactive map.

10/08/2018

WLRN

During Peak King Tide Season, FAU Researchers Talk About Sea-Level Rise Resiliency
From CES' event on Oct. 8, "Transforming a wetter Florida into a better Florida: Sea-level rise resilience collaborations" project showcase, co-hosted by FAU, Congressman Ted Deutch Florida Sea Grant Citizens Climate Lobby and American Flood Coalition.

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