Does it matter if people think climate change is human caused?

Hartter, Joel; Hamilton, Lawrence C.; Boag, Angela E.; Stevens, Forrest R.; Ducey, Mark J.; Christoffersen, Nils; Oester, Paul T.; Palace, M. W.

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2017.06.014

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“…Another issue of potential importance to people's willingness to act to mitigate climate change is the extent to which people believe that climate change is caused by human activity or by natural factors. Although most people now believe that the climate is changing (Hartter et al, 2018), many still do not accept that the change is caused by human activity (Hartter et al, 2018). Siegrist and Sütterlin's (2014) research suggested that people are more concerned about the negative consequences of human-caused hazards than hazards that are naturally caused.…”

Section: Human Versus Natural Causesmentioning

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Hyperbolic Discounting with Environmental Outcomes across Time, Space, and Probability

Sargisson

Schöner

2020

Psychol Rec

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Environmental discounting is a potentially important research area for climate change mitigation. We aimed to replicate and extend earlier work on the discounting of a negative environmental outcome. We measured ratings of concern, and willingness to act to mitigate, an outcome involving air pollution that would hypothetically affect the garden and drinking water of the participants over psychological distance represented by temporal (

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Section: Human Versus Natural Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hyperbolic Discounting with Environmental Outcomes across Time, Space, and Probability

Sargisson

Schöner

2020

Psychol Rec

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“…[24][25] Two other regional projects, covering New Hampshire and northeast Oregon, each involved a series of surveys carried out with independent random samples from 2010 or 2011 to 2018. Many papers present results from the various Oregon surveys up to 2015 [26][27][28][29], and New Hampshire surveys up to 2017. [30][31] Results from the 2018 Oregon and New Hampshire surveys are described for the first time in this paper.…”

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“…The Oregon respondents are comparatively more likely than nationwide or other regional respondents to think climate is changing mainly for natural reasons (38 percent) or even that it is not changing (6 percent), despite summer warming that has worsened the wildfires affecting their region. [28][29]…”

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Generation gaps in US public opinion on renewable energy and climate change

2019

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The topics of climate change and renewable energy are often linked in policy discussions and scientific analysis, but public opinion on these topics exhibits both overlap and divergence. Although renewable energy has potentially broader acceptance than anthropogenic climate change, it can also face differently-based opposition. Analyses of US and regional surveys, including time series of repeated surveys in New Hampshire (2010–2018) and northeast Oregon (2011–2018), explore the social bases and trends of public views on both issues. Political divisions are prominent, although somewhat greater regarding climate change due to substantive differences and more partisan opposition. Regarding climate change and to a lesser extent renewable energy, political divisions tends to widen with education. There also are robust age and temporal effects: younger adults more often prioritize renewable energy development, and agree with scientists on the reality of anthropogenic climate change (ACC). Across all age groups and both regional series, support for renewable energy and recognition of ACC have been gradually rising. Contrary to widespread speculation, these trends have not visibly responded to events such as the US hurricanes of 2012, 2017 or 2018. Together with age-cohort replacement and the potential for changes in age-group voting participation, however, the gradual trends suggest that public pressure for action on these issues could grow.

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“…Under the CAFOR project, landline and cell telephone surveys involving separate random samples of northeast Oregon residents were conducted in three stages: September/October 2011 (n = 1585 from Baker, Union, and Wallowa Counties), August/October 2014 (n = 1752, from the same three counties along with Crook, Grant, Umatilla, and Wheeler Counties), and October/November 2015 (n = 651, repeating the seven counties from 2014) [24,[58][59][60][61]. Response rates on the three CAFOR surveys range from 30 to 48%.…”

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A change in the wind? US public views on renewable energy and climate compared

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Background: Renewable energy development is a necessary step toward climate change mitigation, so these topics have often been linked. In US public discourse, however, they have somewhat different profiles-climate change views are tied closely to partisan identity, whereas renewable energy exhibits more cross-cutting appeal, and sometimes more cross-cutting opposition as well. To what extent are such differences reflected in survey data tracking rates of change, respondent characteristics, and local or regional variations in public opinion on renewable energy and climate? Methods: We explore similarities and differences in views of renewable energy and climate change using a unique collection of 18 US national or regional surveys totaling more than 14,000 interviews, conducted between 2011 and 2017. Individual surveys varied in context, content, and goals, but all asked two common energy and climate questions, which yield comparable and strikingly consistent results. Results: Public support for renewable energy appears broader than acceptance of anthropogenic climate change (ACC), especially in a more conservative region. Despite local controversies, support for renewable energy in recent years rose faster than ACC acceptance on two regional surveys. Political divisions remain wide on both topics, but wider regarding climate change-particularly among college-educated respondents. Renewable energy views in counties with proposed or operating wind farms are not systematically different from those in other counties. Conclusions: Overall, these results provide encouragement for promoting renewable energy in terms of its economic benefits, working around some of the political identity-based resistance to climate change mitigation. That approach could be most important in politically conservative regions where such resistance is strong.

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Does it matter if people think climate change is human caused?

Cited by 53 publications

References 31 publications

Hyperbolic Discounting with Environmental Outcomes across Time, Space, and Probability

Hyperbolic Discounting with Environmental Outcomes across Time, Space, and Probability

Generation gaps in US public opinion on renewable energy and climate change

A change in the wind? US public views on renewable energy and climate compared

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