气候洞察2020调查美国公众对气候变化和环境的看法.docxVIP

This second installment of the Climate Insights 2020 report focuses on American public opinion regarding natural disasters such as inland flooding and wildfires—a very real threat to many Americans. The next installment in this series will address the political dynamics underpinning many Americans views about climate change and policy. This series is accompanied by an interactive data tool, which can be used to view specific data from the survey. Please visit /climateinsights or https:// / for more information and to access the data tool, report series, blog posts, and more. Note: Since 1997, Stanford University Professor Jon Krosnick has led surveys exploring American public opinion on issues related to global warming, human activity, government policies to address climate change, and more, through a series of rigorous national surveys of random samples of American adults. When this research program began, “global warming” was the term in common parlance. That term was used throughout the surveys over the decades and was always defined for respondents, so it was properly understood. In recent years, the term “climate change” has risen in popularity, so both terms are used in this report interchangeably. When describing survey question wordings and results, the term “global warming” is used in order to match the term referenced during interviews. Empirical studies have shown that survey respondents interpret the terms “global warming” and “climate change” to have equivalent meanings (Villar and Krosnick 2011). ii Resources for the Future and Stanford University ii Acknowledgments The authors and contributors would like to thank Angelique Uglow (ReconMR), Jared McDonald (Stanford University), Matt Berent (Matt Berent Consulting), Adina Abeles (Stanford University), and Samy Sekar (Stanford University). In addition, the authors thank RFF researchers and staff Richard Newell, Ray Kopp, James Boyd, Margaret Walls, Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Kristin Hayes, Justine