Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Abraham Lincoln
The folks at the Yale Program on Climate Connections just released this new tool that you can use to generate climate change fact sheets by state, county, or congressional district showing how attitudes towards climate change vary across your state and region. You can go to the page to generate the factsheets at https://factsheets.ypccc.tools/.
Here is what they say in their description: Americans’ opinions about climate change vary widely depending on where people live. So why would we rely on just one national number to understand public responses to climate change at the state and local levels? This Factsheets tool, based on the Yale Climate Opinion Maps, provides information about Americans’ beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy preferences about climate change for all 50 states, 435 congressional districts, and 3,142 counties across the U.S. The tool allows you to customize which survey questions are shown on your Factsheet. The opinion estimates are based on a statistical model (see Howe et al. 2015 for details) that uses a large individual-level survey dataset (n > 28,000), plus geographic, demographic, economic, and other data to provide results accurate to within about 8 percentage points at any geographic level. We hope you find the data and tool useful, and welcome your feedback to help us improve future versions.
