Erika Bolstad reports the updated Yale Climate Opinion maps suggest U.S. opinions on climate change differ sharply from that of the new President. How many Americans think coal-fired power plants should cap emissions, how much do they worry about climate change or even how often do they talk about it? There is a map for that based on collected data.
The Yale Climate Opinion maps, which offer some of the most detailed information available on how people across the U.S. view climate change, just got their first update in two years.
The interactive maps, which had not changed since 2014, use survey data to determine climate change beliefs, risk perception and policy support for climate-related policy at the state and local level. But the update unveiled this week incorporates data gathered after the 2016 election by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.
That polling suggested that Americans have sharply different opinions on climate change than the president. Seven in 10 registered voters say the U.S. should remain a participant in the international agreement to limit climate change, according to the survey, which polled 1,061 people in the days after the Nov. 8 presidential election. The survey also found that two-thirds of registered voters want the U.S. to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries choose to do.
The updated maps show that, across the country, 70% of Americans think global warming is happening and that it will harm future generations. An estimated 82% of adults think there should be support for research into renewable sources of energy. An estimated 69 % think there should be strict limits on CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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