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[Laszlo Perry]

Youngpeople around the world have been at the forefront of climate change protests, and in the United States, adults under 40 are considerably more likely than their elders to express concern about the issue and attribute it to human activity.

Overall, two-thirds of U.S. adults younger than 40 say global climate change is an extremely or very serious problem, compared with roughly half of those ages 40 and older (52%), according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Furthermore, 64% of adults under 40 say the Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, while fewer than half of older Americans (47%) take that position.

There are similar age gaps among evangelical Protestants, even though both younger and older evangelicals are less likely than Americans overall to express concern about climate change. Evangelical Protestant adults under 40 are more likely than older evangelicals to say climate change is an extremely or very serious problem (41% vs. 31%). And 42% of evangelical adults under 40 say the Earth is warming due to human activity, compared with 28% of evangelicals ages 40 and older.

Views toward climate change are even more closely tied to political party than to religion or age, with Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to express high levels of concern. Still, among Republicans, adults under 40 are considerably more likely than those ages 40 and older to say that climate change is an extremely or very serious problem (35% vs. 21%) and that the Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity (38% vs. 19%). The age gap is not as pronounced among Democrats, with large majorities of both younger and older Democrats expressing these views.

While young adults in the U.S. tend to be more concerned about climate change than adults ages 40 and older, they also tend to be less religious than older Americans. These crosscutting patterns show up when examining the percentage of young Americans who are both highly religious and concerned about climate change.

Young Americans are less likely than their elders to hold some beliefs that connect religion to the environment. For instance, while 55% of Americans under 40 say they completely or mostly agree with the idea that God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth, 72% of adults 40 and older say the same. Younger Americans also are less likely than their older counterparts to say they have prayed for the environment in the past year (27% vs. 37%). These gaps exist in part because young Americans are less religious in general, including being less likely to believe in God and to pray on a regular basis.

Among evangelical Protestants, however, differences between younger and older adults on these questions are modest. Eight-in-ten or more evangelical adults under 40 (82%) and ages 40 and older (88%) say God gave humans a duty to care for the Earth, while similar shares of both groups say they have prayed for the environment in the past 12 months (41% and 44%, respectively).

Facts on Climate Change, a Czech team of independent analysts and experts, is committed to making the public debate on climate change factual, constructive and based on scientifically verified data. They recently published an English version of their Atlas of Climate Change, which was previously only available in Czech, to provide teachers, students, journalists, influencers, and political and business decision makers across the world with easy-to-use maps, explainers and infographics that summarise key facts about one of the greatest challenges facing our civilisation today.

The eventual result was the website Facts on Climate Change, and the organisation that Přibyla founded continues to do analyses of temperature data, energy transformation and other areas related to climate change.

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The Yale Corporation argued that it abolished the petition process because it had begun to mirror recent political campaigns, a similarity which the Corporation said could harm its governance by linking trustees to outside organizations, as well as discouraging qualified candidates from running. Trustees must be neutral arbiters and open to compromise, it wrote in a May 25 statement.

In May, when the trustees announced their decision, it received immediate and fierce backlash. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate published a statement of concern condemning the decision. In early June, the Wall Street Journal featured an opinion piece opposing the move.

Nate Nickerson, vice president for communications, said that University President Peter Salovey and the trustees respect that some alumni oppose the decision, and that the trustees have signaled a desire to be closer to the alumni and exchange views with them.

Lipka added that he has spoken with senior Yale administrators and tried to tell them that alumni concern over the decision is out of love for Yale. He feels the lines of communication are open and can see a scenario in which the petition process is reinstated or the election process is further reformed, he said. In a June interview with the News, Salovey indicated that further reforms to the election process might be possible as the Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee listens to feedback.

Coral reefs are dying off at an alarming rate. Our Aquatic Research Facility is carrying out work with organisations across the globe to make corals more resilient in the face of man-made afflictions.

I lead and teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the areas of cognitive and developmental psychology. From 2014 to 2019, I was the Programme Leader of the MSc Behaviour Change, which promotes the application of psychology to behaviour change interventions in areas such as health and wellbeing, work or the environment. The course is open to part-time mature students who work in industry or charitable sectors. I still very much enjoy teaching and supervising students on this programme. I also coordinate and teach on the Research Supervisor Training programme offered to doctoral supervisors across the university.

My research applies psychological theories to the study of everyday issues including reading strategies used by monolingual and bilingual students, exam anxiety, alcohol-related aggression, malingering in neuropsychological and forensic settings, suggestibility and behaviour change. My research has been published in peer-reviewed high-quality journals including Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, PLoS ONE, Personality and Individual Differences, The Journal of Pain, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Neuroscience Letters, Language and Cognitive Processes. My research has received external funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), SERC/Joint Council Initiative in Cognitive Science/HCI, German Research Foundation (DFG), as well as several University of Derby internal grants supporting a research-inspired curriculum. I have been an occasional reviewer for several leading academic journals. As an experienced doctoral supervisor, I have co-supervised successful PhD projects on rehearsal processes in working memory and EEG coherence, processing of compassionate and critical faces, anxiety and visual attention, and online gambling.

Lipka, S. (2018). Complex interventions - Exploring the application of behaviour change theory to doctoral supervisor training. Poster presented at Centre for Behaviour Change Digital Health Conference 2018: Behaviour Change for Health: Digital and Beyond, 21-22 Feb 2018. London

Lipka, S. & Clarke, L. (2014). Effects of time pressure and maths anxiety on solving mental arithmetic problems. Talk presented at BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference, 2nd to 5th September 2014, Nottingham Trent University

Given the expected lifetime of nuclear power plants (60 years for new designs), it is clear that climate change considerations must be addressed in the design, planning and licensing stages. Additionally, there may be the need to retrofit existing nuclear power plants to make them more resilient in the face of climate change. Closed cooling systems, more robust water intake systems, more efficient heat exchangers are examples of adaptation measures. The adoption of these measures will have an impact on the cost of nuclear electricity, which must be compared to the cost of inaction, i.e. the risk of forced outages due to extreme weather.

The Ad hoc Expert Group on Climate Change: Assessment of the Vulnerability of Nuclear Power Plants and Cost of Adaptation (NUCA) was responsible for assesing the vulnerability of nuclear power plants, impact of climate change on the contribution of nuclear power to the security of energy supply and the cost of adapting to changes in the climate.

The goal of the Committee for Technical and Economic Studies on Nuclear Energy Development and the Fuel Cycle is to provide authoritative, reliable information on nuclear technologies, economics, strategies and resources to governments for use in policy analyses and decision-making.

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