Report · Jun 17, 2015
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Spring 2025
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Teresa Myers, Joshua Ettinger, Julia Fine, Emily Richards, Matthew Goldberg and Jennifer Marlon
Filed under: Policy & Politics
1. Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
1.1 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 large majorities of liberal Democrats (91%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (76%). About one in five liberal/moderate Republicans (22%) think global warming should be a high or very high priority (a decrease of 14 percentage points since we last asked this question in Fall 2024, just after the November 2024 presidential election). Few conservative Republicans (12%) think global warming should be a priority.
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 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. This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (93%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (79%). About four in ten liberal/moderate Republicans (39%) think developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority, as do about one-third of conservative Republicans (35%; +9 percentage points since we last asked this question in Fall 2024).
