American exceptionalism? Similarities and differences in national attitudes toward energy policy and global warming
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2006

Despite sharp differences in government policy, the views of the U.S. public on energy and global warming are remarkably similar to those in Sweden, Britain, and Japan. Americans do exhibit some differences, placing lower priority on the environment and global warming, and with fewer believing that "global warming has been established as a serious problem and immediate action is necessary". There also remains a small hard core of skeptics (< 10%) who do not believe in the science of climate change and the need for action, a group that is much smaller in the other countries surveyed. The similarities are, however, pervasive. Similar preferences are manifest across a wide range of technology and fuel choices, in support of renewables, in research priorities, in a basic understanding of which technologies produce or reduce carbon dioxide (or misunderstandings in the case of nuclear power), and in willingness to pay for solving global warming.

Författare

David Reiner

University of Cambridge

Tom Curry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

M De Figueiredo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Howard Herzog

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

S Ansolabehere

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

K Itaoka

Mizuho Information and Research Institute

Filip Johnsson

Chalmers, Energi och miljö

Mikael Odenberger

Chalmers, Energi och miljö

Environmental Science & Technology

0013-936X (ISSN) 1520-5851 (eISSN)

Vol. 40 7 2093-2098

Ämneskategorier

Övrig annan teknik

DOI

10.1021/es052010b

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