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CLIMATE CHANGE BELIEFS

Reaching Republicans on climate change

Nature Climate Change volume 11, pages 560–561 (2021)Cite this article

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Increasing Republicans’ belief in climate change is challenging yet needed for broader support of policy. Targeted advertisements featuring Republican voices may be a solution to increase their understanding of climate change.

Climate change and broader environmental support has been a highly polarized issue in the USA since the 1980s. While there have been increases in belief in climate change and recognition of the need to act in recent years, they are mainly driven by Democrats5,6. As a result of this wide opinion gap, there have been zero major environmental federal policies since 1990 (ref. 7). Without more support among Republicans, federal US climate policy will continue to face very difficult odds in the foreseeable future.

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Fig. 1: Percentage of US adults in each group who say the Earth is getting warmer mostly due to human activity.

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Ehret, P. Reaching Republicans on climate change. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 560–561 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01071-0

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