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Home / Politics & Global Warming, September 2021

Report · Oct 20, 2021

Politics & Global Warming, September 2021

By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Jennifer Carman, Liz Neyens, Matthew Goldberg, Karine Lacroix and Jennifer Marlon
Filed under: Policy & Politics and Behaviors & Actions
Go back to 7. Educating Students About Global Warming
Read the Next Section Online Appendix II: Survey Method

Appendix I: Data Tables

Data Tables can be found beginning on p. 20 of the PDF version of the full report:

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Go back to 7. Educating Students About Global Warming Read Appendix II: Survey Method
Table of Contents
  • Report Summary
  • Executive Summary
  • Reading Notes
  • 1. Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
  • 2. Support for Policies to Reduce the Pollution that Causes Global Warming
  • 3. Energy Production as an Economic Issue
  • 4. Who is Responsible for Action on Global Warming?
  • 5. State and Local Government Action on Global Warming
  • 6. Political Actions to Limit Global Warming
  • 7. Educating Students About Global Warming
  • Appendix I: Data Tables
  • Appendix II: Survey Method
  • Appendix III: Demographics
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Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Rosenthal, S., Kotcher, J., Carman, J., Neyens, L., Goldberg, M., Lacroix, K., & Marlon, J. (2021). Politics & Global Warming, September 2021. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Funding Sources

The research was funded by the Schmidt Family Foundation, the U.S. Energy Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Grantham Foundation.

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Climate Change in the American Mind

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