Report · Jun 28, 2023
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2023
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Matthew Ballew, Jennifer Marlon, Marija Verner, Sanguk Lee, Jennifer Carman, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg and Nicholas Badullovich
Filed under: Policy & Politics
1. Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
1.1. 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 (54%) think global warming should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress (refer to data tables, p. 30). This includes a large majority of liberal Democrats (88%), about two in three moderate/conservative Democrats (69%), and about four in ten liberal/moderate Republicans (41%). Few conservative Republicans (9%) think so.
1.2. Most registered voters think developing sources of clean energy should be a “high” or “very high” priority for the president and Congress.
About two in three registered voters (66%) think developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress (refer to data tables, p. 30). This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (95%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (76%), more than half of liberal/moderate Republicans (56%), but only 30% of conservative Republicans.
