Report · Jun 13, 2024
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2024
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Matthew Ballew, Marija Verner, Teresa Myers, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Matthew Goldberg, Nicholas Badullovich and Kathryn Thier
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 (52%) think global warming should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress. This includes a large majority of liberal Democrats (87%) and most moderate/conservative Democrats (64%), about half of Independents (48%; refer to data tables, p. 49), and about one in three liberal/moderate Republicans (37%). Few conservative Republicans (13%) 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.
About six in ten registered voters (63%) 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 (95%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (76%), about six in ten Independents (62%; refer to data tables, p. 49), and about half of liberal/moderate Republicans (49%), but only 24% of conservative Republicans. Over the past five to seven years, Republicans’ support for the president and Congress making clean energy a high or very high priority has declined steadily.
