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Climate Change in the American Mind: American's climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and actions

Friday, March 27, 2009

(Yale & George Mason Universities)
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In September and October of 2008 a research team from Yale and George Mason Universities conducted a nationally representative survey of 2,164 American adults. Survey
participants were asked about their issue priorities for the new administration and Congress,
support and opposition regarding climate change and energy policies, levels of political
and consumer activism, and beliefs about the reality and risks of global warming.

This study was conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, and was funded by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the 11th Hour Project, and the Pacific Foundation.

Principal Investigators:
Anthony Leiserowitz, PhD
Yale Project on Climate Change
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
(203) 432-4865
anthony.leiserowitz@yale.edu

Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD
Center for Climate Change Communication
Department of Communication, George Mason University
(703) 993-1587
emaibach@gmu.edu

Connie Roser-Renouf, PhD
Center for Climate Change Communication
Department of Communication, George Mason University
(707) 825-0601
croserre@gmu.edu