Climate Change
US Public Opinion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip J Egan (0000-0002-9905-7466, New York University), Patrick J Egan, Molly Mullin (0000-0002-1936-802X, Duke University), Megan Mullin |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 209-227 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051215-022857 |
| OpenAlex | W2515757056 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 192 |
| References cited | 76 |
A review of research findings and polling data about Americans’ attitudes on climate change reveals a lack of meaningful long-term change in mass opinion. Instead, the structure of Americans’ attitudes toward belief in climate change's existence, concern about its consequences, and demand for policy response is similar to that regarding many other issues in contemporary US politics: stability in aggregate opinion that masks partisan and ideological polarization enhanced by communications from elites. But features of the climate change problem elicit some distinctive determinants of opinion, including individuals’ trust in science, risk processing, and personal experience. Although our review of the literature and data leaves us skeptical that majority opinion will spur elected officials anytime soon to undertake the costly solutions necessary to tackle this problem comprehensively at the national level, we identify several avenues by which attitudes might promote less substantial but nevertheless consequential policy action
Action (physics · Climate change · Ideology · Polarization (electrochemistry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polling · Public opinion · Public relations · Skepticism · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Risk Perception and Management
The spatial politics of International Climate Finance
Sciences perceived as precise and consensual are more trusted
Locus of control, climate change adaptation and perception
Temporal trends of environmental concern and potential influencing factors in the United States and China, 1945–2019
Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries
Water-Saving Attitudes in Residential Gardens
Public opinion about climate policies
Correcting misinformation about climate change
Cognitive–motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts
Climate Change Disinformation and How to Combat It
How has the public in the United States supported renewable energy? ─A longitudinal study from 2010 to 2023
The Impact of Extreme Precipitation Events and Their Variability on Climate Change Beliefs in the American Public
The Conditional Effects of Air Conditioning
An Assessment of Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk in Three Western U.S. Cities
An Analysis of K–12 Climate Change Science Standards in the United States
The Influences of Political Affiliation and Weather-Related Impacts on Climate Change Adaptation in U.S. Cities
Trial by Fire
The Paris Agreement and the Prospects for Socialization into the Climate Norm
How youth-led climate movements played a role in the passage of the United States’ first ever climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act
Constant carbon pricing increases support for climate action compared to ramping up costs over time
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies
Social Psychological Perspectives on Political Polarization
Exploring environmental sustainability of academia as a working space
Climate change advocacy
Global warming in the minds of Mexican higher education students
Fact-Checking Climate Change
Unpacking Ingroup Source Effects in Politically Polarized Issues
Climate adaptation as a team process
Learning for collaborative action
Between drought and flood
A tribal mind
Standing Up or Standing By
Committed Participation or Flashes of Action? Mobilizing Public Attention to Climate on Twitter, 2011–2015
Promoting Behaviors to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change
Enduring Extremes? Polar Vortex, Drought, and Climate Change Beliefs
A Research Agenda for Climate Change Communication and Public Opinion
Learning from the Climate Change Debate to Avoid Polarisation on Negative Emissions
Effects of Conspiracy Rhetoric on Views About the Consequences of Climate Change and Support for Direct Carbon Capture
Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change
Climate Change Attitudes and Fossil Fuel Extraction and Distribution in Canada
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion
When AI sees hotter
When experts matter
One Nation, Two Realities
Communicating Climate Change
Community Disaster Recovery
Climate Politics in the Primaries
Polarizing figures in polarized times
Women in parliament make economies and international trade cleaner
Experience and Self-Interest
Quasi-universal acceptance of basic science in the United States
Do Citizens use Sociodemographic Characteristics as Cues to Infer Candidate Issue Positions
Does gender matter for climate change governance? A review of empirical research
Change in US state-level public opinion about climate change
Nonpartisans hold the key
Race, ethnicity, and support for climate policy
How will climate change shape climate opinion
Their Economy and Our Health
Climate and the Ancient World
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions
How others drive our sense of understanding of policies
Who Shapes Environmental Policy? Power and Politics in the Renewable Portfolio Standards of U.S. States, 1997–2020
For us climate action never dies’
Like wildfire
Why are we being punished and they are being rewarded?” views on renewable energy in fossil fuels-based communities of the U.S. west
The politics of decarbonization
Partisan winds
Turning a coal state to a green state
Stakeholder perceptions of the United States energy transition
National energy transition, local partisanship? Elite cues, community identity, and support for clean power in the United States
Clearing the air
Blame over blackouts
The Dark Side of Policy Responsiveness
Partisan strength and the politicization of global climate change
Cost sensitivity, partisan cues, and support for the Green New Deal
The Trump Administration and environmental policy
Conservative conservationists
Environmental Nonprofit Organizations and Public Opinion on Global Warming
Good news about good news? The limited impacts of informing Americans about recent success in climate change mitigation
Green distractions? When did environmental politics become a matter of personal responsibility
Success or Failure? News Framing of the COP26 Glasgow Summit and its Effects on Citizens’ Beliefs About Climate Change
Local-level managers’ attitudes towards natural hazards resilience
Who are American evangelical Protestants and why do they matter for US climate policy
Unrepresentedness, climate concern and voting behavior
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy
Bridging the Gap in a Changing World
Finding common ground in uncertain times
The public as an audience for the securitisation of climate change
Public attitudes towards climate change
Public opinion on climate change
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? Part I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth
Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States
Exploring the “Evil Twin of Global Warming”
Explaining Perceptions of Climate Change in the US
Expertise and Inequality Amid Environmental Crisis
Social capital as a policy catalyst
Polarization of climate politics results from partisan sorting
Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming
Experience is not enough
Global Warming Gridlock
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Partisan Sort
Partisan Priorities
Political ideology affects energy-efficiency attitudes and choices
Mass support for global climate agreements depends on institutional design
Tracking Public Beliefs About Anthropogenic Climate Change
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes and anchoring on belief in global warming
How do people update? The effects of local weather fluctuations on beliefs about global warming
Lost in translation? United States television news coverage of anthropogenic climate change, 1995–2004
Issue Evolution
The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion
Weather, Climate, and Worldviews
Weather or Not? Examining the Impact of Meteorological Conditions on Public Opinion regarding Global Warming
Weather, Climate, and the Economy
Cheap and Clean
The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks
Risk Perceptions, General Environmental Beliefs, and Willingness to Address Climate Change
Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science
The Association of Knowledge with Concern About Global Warming
Examining the Relationship Between Physical Vulnerability and Public Perceptions of Global Climate Change in the United States
How warm days increase belief in global warming
Apocalypse Soon
Boomerang Effects in Science Communication
Meta-analyses of the determinants and outcomes of belief in climate change
Hearts or minds? Identifying persuasive messages on climate change
Communicating adaptation to climate change
Framing, partisan predispositions, and public opinion on climate change
Declining public concern about climate change
The Role of Religion in Environmental Attitudes
Defeating Kyoto
Flogging a dead norm? Newspaper coverage of anthropogenic climate change in the United States and United Kingdom from 2003 to 2006
Collective Action and Citizen Responses to Global Warming
Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment
Turning Personal Experience into Political Attitudes
Is Polarization a Myth
Issue Evolution, Political Parties, and the Culture Wars
Environmental Policy and Party Divergence in Congress
Climate‐Science Communication and the Measurement Problem
Beyond the Running Tally
The Most Important Topic Political Scientists Are Not Studying
Climate Change Politics
Party Polarization and "Conflict Extension" in the American Electorate
Issue Definition, Information Processing, and the Politics of Global Warming
Abortion
Solution aversion
Doing What Others Do
Synchrony and Cooperation
What shapes perceptions of climate change
The case for motivated reasoning
Boomerangs versus Javelins
The organisation of denial
Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy
Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust
A Cooling Climate for Change? Party Polarization and the Politics of Global Warming
Leading Voices in the Denier Choir
The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public's Views of Global Warming, 2001-2010
Political polarization on support for government spending on environmental protection in the USA, 1974-2012
| Unique citing works | 192 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 24 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 186 |