Report · Nov 29, 2023
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2023
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Matthew Ballew, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg, Nicholas Badullovich and Kathryn Thier
Filed under: Policy & Politics
2. Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
2.1. More than half of registered voters think global warming should be a “high” or “very high” priority for the president and Congress.
More than half of registered voters (56%) think global warming should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress (refer to data tables, p. 43). This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (89%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (85%; the highest level for this group on this question since these surveys began in 2008), and four in ten liberal/moderate Republicans (40%). Few conservative Republicans (11%) think so.
2.2. Most registered voters think developing sources of clean energy should be a “high” or “very high” priority for the president and Congress.
More than six in ten registered voters (64%) think developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress (refer to data tables, p. 43). This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (93%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (93%; the highest level for this group on this question since these surveys began in 2008), half of liberal/moderate Republicans (50%), but only 25% of conservative Republicans.
