Report · Jan 31, 2023
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, December 2022
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Jennifer Carman, Sanguk Lee, Marija Verner, Matthew Ballew, Patrick Owusu Ansah, Nicholas Badullovich, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg and Jennifer Marlon
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 (see data tables, p. 40). This includes a large majority of liberal Democrats (90%), about three in four moderate/conservative Democrats (74%), and one in three liberal/moderate Republicans (33%). Few conservative Republicans (10%) 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 two in three registered voters (65%) think developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress (see data tables, p. 40). This includes large majorities of liberal Democrats (95%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (82%), about half of liberal/moderate Republicans (52%), but only 28% of conservative Republicans.
