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- Opinion about human causation of climate change increased substantially with education among Democrats, but not among Republicans. Conversely, opinions favoring becoming carbon neutral declined substantially with age among Republicans, but not among Democrats. (en)
- Presenting data and other facts is less effective in motivating people to act to mitigate climate change, than financial incentives and social pressure involved in showing people climate-related actions of other people. (en)
- Research found that 80–90% of Americans underestimate the prevalence of support for major climate change mitigation policies and climate concern. While 66–80% Americans support these policies, Americans estimate the prevalence to be 37–43%. Researchers have called this misperception a false social reality, a form of pluralistic ignorance. (en)
- The sharp divide over the existence of and responsibility for global warming and climate change falls largely along political lines. Overall, 60% of Americans surveyed said oil and gas companies were "completely or mostly responsible" for climate change. (en)
- A 2022 study found that the public substantially underestimates the degree of scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change. Studies from 2019–2021 found scientific consensus to range from 98.7–100%. (en)
- Perceptions differ along political lines, on whether climate change was a "major factor" contributing to various extreme weather events experienced by respondents. (en)
- The strongest factors in self-reported changes in opinion about global warming were Republican party identification, seeing others experience impacts of global warming, and learning more about global warming. (en)
- Google Trends data shows a growth in searches for the terms climate emergency and climate crisis . (en)
- Terms like "climate emergency" and climate crisis" have often been used by activists, and are increasingly found in academic papers. (en)
- This 1912 article, from an earlier Popular Mechanics article, succinctly describes the greenhouse effect to the public, focusing on how burning coal creates carbon dioxide that causes climate change. (en)
- This 1902 newspaper article attributes to Swedish Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius a theory that coal combustion could cause a degree of global warming that could eventually lead to human extinction. (en)
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