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Which racial/ethnic groups care most about climate change?

Matthew Ballew, Edward Maibach, John Kotcher, Parrish Bergquist, Seth Rosenthal, Jennifer Marlon, Anthony Leiserowitz Climate change disproportionately affects members of disadvantaged communities and groups who face socioeconomic inequalities, including many people...

Climate Activism: Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behaviors- November 2019

Drawing on a nationally representative survey (N = 1,303; including 1,114 registered voters), this report describes how Americans view climate activism – including their views of public activists, their sense of efficacy about climate activism, and the activism...

America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change

Over the past few decades, the fossil fuel industry has subjected the American public to a well-funded, well-orchestrated disinformation campaign about the reality and severity of human-caused climate change. The purpose of this web of denial has been to confuse the...

Americans oppose drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Sep 26, 2019 CLIMATE NOTE By Matthew Ballew, Anthony Leiserowitz,  Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, and Edward Maibach Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been protected from oil and gas drilling for decades. Recently, however, the Trump administration...
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Politics & Global Warming, September 2021 This report includes only registered voters. References to Republicans...

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