This report summarizes polling of public support for climate and energy policies in the United States. Findings...
2013 Articles
Climate Change in the American Mind: Americans’ Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in November 2013
This Climate Change in the American Mind survey found that 1 in 4 Americans think that global warming is not...
If They Like You They Learn From You: How a Brief Weathercaster-Delivered Climate Education Segment is Moderated by Viewer Evaluations of the Weathercaster
Local television (TV) weathercasters are a potentially promising source of climate education, in that weather is the...
Maryland’s Six Climate Change Audiences: A Global Warming’s Six Americas Audience Segmentation, Summer 2013
This report presents an analysis of the different ways in which Marylanders are thinking about the issue of climate...
Public Health, Energy and Climate Change: A Survey of Maryland Residents, Summer 2013
In Summer 2013, we surveyed 2,126 Maryland residents on their attitudes, behaviors, and policy preferences regarding...
Climate Change & Energy: Public Attitudes, Behaviors and Policy Support: A Survey of Maryland Residents, Summer 2013
In this report we present findings about attitudes, behaviors, and policy preferences regarding energy and climate...
Attitude Change in Competitive Framing Environments? Open/Closed-Mindedness and Framing Effects about Climate Change
Framing scholarship on policy issues has primarily focused on how competitive message environments alter framing...
Nudging Toward a Healthy Natural Environment: How Behavioral Change Research Can Inform Conservation
This report synthesizes foundational knowledge from psychology and behavioral economics to develop recommendations for...
Perceptions of Extreme Weather and Climate Change in Virginia
This report presents findings from a telephone survey of 2,000 adult local TV news viewers about their perceptions of...
The Relationship Between Personal Experience and Belief in the Reality of Global Warming
In this paper, we address the chicken-or-egg question posed by two alternative explanations for the relationship...
How Americans Communicate about Global Warming: April 2013
Highlights of this survey on Americans’ climate communication behaviors include: Only one in three Americans say they...
Americans’ Actions to Limit Global Warming: April 2013
Highlights Consumer Behavior: Half of all Americans at least occasionally consider environmental impacts when deciding...
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