Partisan Views of Climate Change


On Tuesday, November 2, the United States votes in the mid-term elections. Climate change and climate change policy have become hot political issues in this election, with many Republican and some Democratic candidates campaigning against cap-and-trade legislation or calling climate change itself into question. Here we take a quick look at the views of Democrats, Republicans and Independents on global warming, drawing from our most recent national survey.

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For more survey details, see the report: Americans’ Knowledge of Climate Change