Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Table of Contents

• Report Summary
• Reading Notes
• Executive Summary
• 1. Global Warming as a Voting Issue
• 2. Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
• 3. Support for Policies to Reduce the Pollution that Causes Global Warming
• 4. The Foreign Pollution Fee Act
• 5. The Paris Climate Agreement
• 6. Energy Production and Global Warming as Economic Issues
• 7. Support for Transitioning from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy
• 8. Who Should Take Action to Address Global Warming?
• 9. Political Advocacy
• 10. Collective Efficacy
• 11. Educating Students About Global Warming
• Appendix I: Data Tables
• Appendix II: Survey Method
• Appendix III: Sample Demographics

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Citation

Leiserowitz, A., Kotcher, J., Rosenthal, S., Goddard, E., Carman, J., Verner, M., Myers, T., Ettinger, J., Fine, J., Richards, E., Goldberg, M., Marlon, J., & Maibach, E. (2025). Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2025. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Funding Sources

The research was funded by the Schmidt Family Foundation, the U.S. Energy Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, King Philanthropies, the Grantham Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.

Project

Climate Change in the American Mind