The Trump administration has taken steps over the past year to roll back regulations on carbon emissions in areas such as fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and power plants emissions. Support for these policies aligns with how effective the public thinks they would be. A survey found majorities of Americans believed restrictions on power plant emissions, tax incentives to encourage businesses to reduce carbon emissions and tougher fuel-efficiency standards for cars would all make a difference at reducing climate change.
Democrats are particularly supportive of policy proposals to reduce the effects of global climate change. Differences among Democrats across demographic characteristics such as age and gender also are small.
Among Republicans, there are large gaps in support for some of these policies by ideology, as well as differences in views between GOP men and women. Moderate and liberal Republicans are broadly supportive of these proposals aimed at reducing the effects of climate change.
Most Republican men and women support tree-planting efforts and offering a tax credit to businesses for carbon capture technology. But GOP women are significantly more likely than men to favor tougher emissions restrictions on power plants, taxing corporations based on their emissions and tougher fuel-efficiency standards for cars.
Most U. Views on this question are about the same as they were last fall. Americans continue to be deeply politically divided over how much human activity contributes to climate change.
The difference is even wider among those at the ends of the ideological spectrum. Views about the role of human activity in climate change also vary by education among Democrats, but not among Republicans. Democrats who have graduated from college are more likely to say human activity contributes a great deal to climate change than Democrats without a college degree.
Among Republicans, comparably small shares across level of education see human activity as contributing a great deal to climate change.
Previous Pew Research Center analyses have found a similar dynamic in views of climate change by level of science knowledge, based on an item index. Among Democrats, those with higher levels of science knowledge are more likely to say human activity influences climate change a great deal than those with lower levels of science knowledge.
By contrast, there is no such relationship among Republicans. There also are significant differences in these views among Democrats by race and ethnicity. Reducing reliance on carbon-based fuels is viewed by climate advocates as a critical step to preventing the worst impacts of climate change. On balance, a majority of U. Views on this question, and opinion dynamics among partisans, are comparable to what they were when the question was last asked in It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values.
Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. Share this link:. And that may be tougher to get out of a public that doesn't feel it has skin in the game. To be clear, the numbers here are not necessarily bad news for those concerned about climate change. They suggest that changing attitudes on the issue is possible and it can happen quickly. But they also show that for environmental activists there still seems to be work to be done if the goal is large-scale political action.
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