The Distribution of Climate Change Public Opinion in Canada.

ABSTRACT: While climate scientists have developed high resolution data sets on the distribution of climate risks, we still lack comparable data on the local distribution of public climate change opinions. This paper provides the first effort to estimate local climate and energy opinion variability outside the United States. Using a multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) approach, we estimate opinion in federal electoral districts and provinces. We demonstrate that a majority of the Canadian public consistently believes that climate change is happening. Belief in climate change's causes varies geographically, with more people attributing it to human activity in urban as opposed to rural areas. Most prominently, we find majority support for carbon cap and trade policy in every province a

SUBMITTER: Mildenberger M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4972305 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature