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Climatic Change (2013) 117:943950
DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0707-6
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J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr. & Linda Stalker Prokopy & Tonya Haigh & Jon Hobbs & Tricia Knoot &Cody Knutson & Adam Loy & Amber Saylor Mase & Jean McGuire & Lois Wright Morton & John Tyndall & Melissa Widhalm
Received: 7 December 2012 /Accepted: 27 January 2013 /Published online: 16 February 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Abstract A February 2012 survey of almost 5,000 farmers across a region of the U.S. that produces more than half of the nations corn and soybean revealed that 66 % of farmers believed climate change is occurring (8 % mostly anthropogenic, 33 % equally human and natural, 25 % mostly natural), while 31 % were uncertain and 3.5 % did not believe that climate change is occurring. Results of initial analyses indicate that farmers beliefs about climate change and its causes vary considerably, and the relationships between those beliefs, concern about the potential impacts of climate change, and attitudes toward adaptive and mitigative action differ in systematic ways. Farmers who believed that climate change is occurring and attributable to human activity were significantly more likely to express concern about impacts and support adaptive and mitigative action. On the other hand, farmers who attributed climate change to natural causes, were uncertain about whether it
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J. G. Arbuckle Jr. (*) : J. McGuire : L. W. Morton
Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA e-mail: [email protected]
L. S. Prokopy : A. S. Mase : M. Widhalm
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
T. Haigh : C. Knutson
National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA
J. Hobbs : A. Loy
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
T. Knoot
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Science Services, Madison, WI, USA
J. Tyndall
Department of Natural Resources Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Climate change beliefs, concerns, and attitudes toward adaptation and mitigation among farmers in the Midwestern United States
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is occurring, or did not believe that it is...