{"id":4494,"date":"2010-02-04T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:05:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:05:27","slug":"climate-concern-flags-amid-support-for-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2010\/02\/04\/climate-concern-flags-amid-support-for-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Concern Flags Amid Support for Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure  id=\"attachment_3404\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 170px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3404\" title=\"app_full_proxy\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/10\/app_full_proxy.jpg\" alt=\"app_full_proxy\" width=\"170\" height=\"100\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One possible outcome &quot;badge&quot; from KQED&#39;s Facebook survey, &quot;A Matter of Degree&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite being far less concerned about climate change than they were a year ago, a large majority of Americans supports the the passage of federal climate and energy policies, according to a national survey released last week by researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities.\u00a0 (The full survey is available as a PDF on the <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.yale.edu\/climate\/\">Yale Project on Climate Change website.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 adults were surveyed in late December and early January, and their responses compared with the results of a similar survey from the fall of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 50% of Americans now say they are &#8220;somewhat&#8221; or &#8220;very worried&#8221; about global warming, a 13-point decrease<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of Americans who think global warming is happening has dropped 14 points, to 57%<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of Americans who think global warming is caused mostly by humans activities dropped 10 points, to 47%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These results echo a <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/556\/global-warming\">similar survey<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/\">Pew Research Center for People and the Press<\/a>, which found that between April 2008 and October 2009, the proportion of Americans who believed there was solid evidence for global warming dropped 14 points, from 71% to 57%.<\/p>\n<p>While both reports indicate a flagging of public concern about climate change in general, the Yale\/GMU report finds that public support for the passage of federal climate and energy policies is strong, even across party lines. Majorities of Republicans and Democrats surveyed support renewable energy research, tax rebates for people buying fuel-efficient vehicles or solar panels, and regulating CO2 as a pollutant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good news is that even though some Americans are becoming more skeptical that global warming is happening, nevertheless, there is still support for some of the basic climate policies,&#8221; said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.yale.edu\/climate\/\">Yale Project on Climate Change<\/a> and one of the study&#8217;s principal investigators.<\/p>\n<p>But the poll also revealed low levels of awareness about the policy debate in general: 60% of Americans surveyed said they&#8217;d heard &#8220;nothing at all&#8221; about cap-and-trade legislation, while just 12% said they&#8217;d heard &#8220;a lot.&#8221;\u00a0 When the concept of carbon permit trading was explained to survey respondents, 58% supported the policy, but that support dropped to 40% when respondents were told that one hypothetical outcome would be to drive up household energy costs by $15 a month.\u00a0 Support rebounded to 66% if a yearly household bonus of $180 were supplied to offset higher energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>Bipartisan support for some climate-related policies amid fading concern about climate change, is not as contradictory as it might seem.\u00a0 While some respondents approve of supporting research funding for renewable energy technologies as efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, others support this policy on national security and energy-independence grounds.\u00a0 Leiserowitz noted that while support for renewable energy research has been high for years, the current public support for cap and trade could &#8220;go either way&#8221; in the near future, depending on how the public debate plays out.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Watch has partnered with the <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.yale.edu\/climate\/\">Yale Project on Climate Change<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangecommunication.org\/\">George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication<\/a> to create our climate survey <a href=\"..\/2009\/10\/28\/attitudes-about-climate-change-are-shifting-is-yours\/\"><em>A Matter of Degree<\/em><\/a>, which is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/uw.kqed.org\/climatesurvey\/index-kqed.php\">Climate Watch website<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/climatesurvey\/\">Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>A<\/em> <em>Matter of Degree<\/em> uses data from the Yale and GMU researchers&#8217; Global Warming&#8217;s Six Americas survey to help survey respondents determine where they fall on the spectrum of American beliefs about climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though far less concerned about climate change than they were just a year ago, Americans across party lines appear to support federal climate and energy policies, according to the results of a recent national 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