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Yale Climate Opinion
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This climate opinion survey is tangentially relevant to AI safety discussions about epistemic infrastructure, polarization, and how disinformation affects public understanding of technical or scientific topics — patterns that may apply to AI risk communication.
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Summary
This Yale Program on Climate Change Communication report presents survey data on American public opinion about climate change as of April 2023, tracking beliefs, attitudes, policy support, and behaviors. It reveals how opinions are segmented across demographic and political lines, providing a snapshot of public understanding and concern. The data is relevant for understanding polarization dynamics and information environment effects on science-related beliefs.
Key Points
- •Tracks American public beliefs about climate change reality, causes, and severity across demographic and political groups
- •Documents significant partisan polarization in climate beliefs, illustrating how political identity shapes acceptance of scientific consensus
- •Measures support for various climate policies, showing where public consensus exists and where opinion is divided
- •Provides longitudinal trend data useful for assessing how media, disinformation, and filter bubbles affect science communication
- •Illustrates how motivated reasoning and identity-protective cognition operate at population scale on a contested scientific topic
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