Politics & Global Warming, September 2021
7. Educating Students About Global Warming
The Next Generation Science Standards for K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education in the United States1 recommend that climate change be included in school science curricula.
A large majority of registered voters (78%) support schools teaching children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming. Support spans the political spectrum, including nearly all liberal and moderate/conservative Democrats (97% and 94% respectively), large majorities of Independents (72%; see data tables) and liberal/moderate Republicans (78%), and more than four in ten conservative Republicans (46%).
Table of Contents
1. Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
2. Support for Policies to Reduce the Pollution that Causes Global Warming
3. Energy Production as an Economic Issue
4. Who is Responsible for Action on Global Warming?
5. State and Local Government Action on Global Warming
6. Political Actions to Limit Global Warming
Citation
Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Rosenthal, S., Kotcher, J., Carman, J., Neyens, L., Goldberg, M., Lacroix, K., & Marlon, J. (2021). Politics & Global Warming, September 2021. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
Funding Sources
The research was funded by the 11th Hour Project, the Energy Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Grantham Foundation.