A change in the wind? US public views on renewable energy and climate compared
A change in the wind? US public views on renewable energy and climate compared
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DOI：
10.1186/s13705-018-0152-5
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发表时间：
2018-04-02
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Salerno, Jonathan D.
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作者：
Hamilton, Lawrence C.;Bell, Erin;Salerno, Jonathan D.
背景：可再生能源开发是减缓气候变化的必要步骤，因此这些主题经常被联系在一起。然而，在美国的公共话语中，他们有一些不同的轮廓-气候变化的观点与党派身份密切相关，而可再生能源则表现出更多的跨领域吸引力，有时也有更多的跨领域反对。这些差异在多大程度上反映在跟踪变化率、受访者特征以及当地或区域对可再生能源和气候的民意差异的调查数据中？研究方法：我们利用2011年至2017年期间进行的18项美国国家或地区调查，共计14，000多个访谈，探索可再生能源和气候变化观点的异同。个别调查的背景，内容和目标不同，但都问两个共同的能源和气候问题，产生可比性和惊人的一致results.Results：公众对可再生能源的支持似乎比接受人为气候变化（ACC）更广泛，特别是在一个更保守的地区。尽管在地方上存在争议，但近年来对可再生能源的支持在两次区域调查中的增长速度超过了行政协调会的接受程度。在这两个问题上，政治分歧仍然很大，但在气候变化问题上分歧更大，特别是在受过大学教育的受访者中。可再生能源的意见，在县与建议或运营的风力发电场是没有系统的不同，从那些在其他country.Conclusions：总体而言，这些结果提供了鼓励，促进可再生能源的经济效益方面，围绕一些政治身份为基础的阻力，减缓气候变化。这种方法在政治上保守的地区可能是最重要的，因为这些地区的阻力很大。
Background: Renewable energy development is a necessary step toward climate change mitigation, so these topics have often been linked. In US public discourse, however, they have somewhat different profiles-climate change views are tied closely to partisan identity, whereas renewable energy exhibits more cross-cutting appeal, and sometimes more cross-cutting opposition as well. To what extent are such differences reflected in survey data tracking rates of change, respondent characteristics, and local or regional variations in public opinion on renewable energy and climate?Methods: We explore similarities and differences in views of renewable energy and climate change using a unique collection of 18 US national or regional surveys totaling more than 14,000 interviews, conducted between 2011 and 2017. Individual surveys varied in context, content, and goals, but all asked two common energy and climate questions, which yield comparable and strikingly consistent results.Results: Public support for renewable energy appears broader than acceptance of anthropogenic climate change (ACC), especially in a more conservative region. Despite local controversies, support for renewable energy in recent years rose faster than ACC acceptance on two regional surveys. Political divisions remain wide on both topics, but wider regarding climate change-particularly among college-educated respondents. Renewable energy views in counties with proposed or operating wind farms are not systematically different from those in other counties.Conclusions: Overall, these results provide encouragement for promoting renewable energy in terms of its economic benefits, working around some of the political identity-based resistance to climate change mitigation. That approach could be most important in politically conservative regions where such resistance is strong.