This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (climatecommunication.yale.edu) and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (climatechangecommunication.org). Interview dates: November 18-December 1, 2016. Interviews: 1,226 Adults (18+), 1,061 of whom are registered to vote. Average margin of error for both the full sample and registered voter subset: +/- 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The research was funded by the 11th Hour Project, the Energy Foundation, the Grantham Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.
Principal Investigators:
Anthony Leiserowitz, PhD
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
anthony.leiserowitz@yale.edu
Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD
George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication
emaibach@gmu.edu
Connie Roser-Renouf, PhD
George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication
croserre@gmu.edu
Seth Rosenthal, PhD
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
seth.rosenthal@yale.edu
Matthew Cutler, PhD
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
matthew.cutler@yale.edu