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11/1/2024	The Miami Herald	How Senate rivals Scott, Mucarsel-Powell differ on Florida's climate change issues Colin Polsky, a climate social scientist at Florida Atlantic University, also found that, in a survey conducted shortly before Helene and Milton hit, 52 percent of respondents favored candidates known to take climate action. Though partisanship is on the rise when it comes to climate issues, Polsky said that "we still have a majority of Floridians who support climate action and a candidate who is strong on that issue."
10/22/2024	Tallahassee Democrat	Most Floridians want to elect climate-change fighters, but look who's leading in polls "Floridians are experiencing enough of the weather challenges predicted by climate change researchers that a majority of adults in the state now see value in some kind of collective action to fight climate change," said Colin Polsky, an FAU vice-president and professor of geosciences.
10/21/2024	Public News Service	Survey: Majority of Floridians support candidates who back climate action Colin Polsky, professor of geosciences at Florida Atlantic University, noted while the divide is narrower than the national average and has decreased among Floridians compared with previous surveys, it helps explain the slow pace of efforts to reduce emissions in the Sunshine State.
10/14/2024	Florida Democratic Party	ICYMI: 'In Florida Senate Race, Two Candidates With Vastly Different Views on the Climate' [Inside Climate News] Floridians are more likely than other Americans to believe climate change is happening and support government actions to address it, surveys show. One recent survey from Florida Atlantic University found that 90 percent of respondents believed climate change was real, compared with 70 percent of Americans who answered similarly on a separate Yale University survey.
10/13/2024	NPR	Hurricane Milton could have an impact on Florida in the long term NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Colin Polsky, former director of CES and a professor of geosciences at Florida Atlantic University, about how Hurricane Milton is raising critical questions about the future of the sunshine state.
05/17/2024	NPR WLRN	Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill that deletes climate change from state law Amy Green, the Florida correspondent for Inside Climate News mentioned FAU's new survey results in an interview with NPR Host, Steve Inskeep, "A new survey out this week from Florida Atlantic University shows that 90% of Floridians think that climate change is happening, and that's compared with 72% of all Americans who believe the same."
05/16/2024	The Palm Beach Post	FAU survey finds political, generational differences on human impact of climate change Colin Polsky, founding director of FAU's School of Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sustainability (ECOS), said in a prepared statement after the survey's release on Tuesday, May 14, "The urgency to act means debate over causes is largely irrelevant."
05/15/2024	The Washington Post	DeSantis signs bill scrubbing 'climate change' from Florida law The latest survey by Florida Atlantic University found that 90 percent of Floridians accept that climate change is happening and 69 percent support state action to address it.
05/14/2024	Sun Sentinel	90% of Floridians think climate change is real, much higher than across the U.S. "Floridians support strengthening our resilience to the effects of climate change because they are experiencing it. The urgency to act means debate over causes is largely irrelevant," said Colin Polsky, director of the FAU Center for Environmental Studies.
05/14/2024	Florida Phoenix	New survey shows 68% of Floridians want state to do more on climate change FAU poll reveals that the percent of GOP voters who believe climate change is caused by human activity has dropped to 40%

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