Report · Dec 17, 2025
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2025
By Anthony Leiserowitz, John Kotcher, Seth Rosenthal, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Teresa Myers, Joshua Ettinger, Julia Fine, Emily Richards, Matthew Goldberg, Jennifer Marlon and Edward Maibach
Filed under: Policy & Politics
2. Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
2.1 About half of registered voters think global warming should be a “high” or “very high” priority for the president and Congress.
About half of registered voters (49%) think global warming should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress. This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (86%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (74%). One in four liberal/moderate Republicans (25%) think global warming should be a high or very high priority. Few conservative Republicans (12%) think global warming should be a priority.
2.2 Most registered voters think developing sources of clean energy should be a “high” or “very high” priority for the president and Congress.
About six in ten registered voters (61%) think developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress. This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (92%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (83%). Thirty-eight percent of liberal/moderate Republicans think developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority, as do 31% of conservative Republicans.
