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What do Americans want to know about climate change?
Matthew Ballew, Marija Verner, Jennifer Carman, et al. Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Americans are more interested in hearing about solutions to climate change than causes, impacts, or evidence. Yale and GMU find in a new analysis that far more Americans would ask about solutions (44%) than evidence (20%), causes (18%), or impacts (11%). Left-leaning audiences are particularly eager to hear about solutions, but conservative audiences still want to hear about the evidence and causes. Of major political and demographic subgroups, Yale and GMU find that liberal Democrats (71%) are the most likely to say that they would ask solutions-focused questions. Meanwhile, conservative Republicans are the most likely to say that they would ask about evidence (37%) and causes (33%).