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The Distribution of Climate Change Public Opinion in Canada
- Source :
- Environment and Society Faculty Publications, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 8, p e0159774 (2016), PloS one, vol 11, iss 8, PLoS ONE, Mildenberger, M; Howe, P; Lachapelle, E; Stokes, L; Marlon, J; & Gravelle, T. (2016). The Distribution of Climate Change Public Opinion in Canada. PLOS ONE, 11(8), e0159774. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159774. UC Santa Barbara: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8d7924bz
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Hosted by Utah State University Libraries, 2016.
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Abstract
- Historic Canadian elections in 2015, both federally and provincially, created an opportunity for action on climate policy. While climate scientists have developed high resolution data sets on the distribution of Canadian 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 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 and district. By contrast, support for carbon taxation is more heterogeneous. Compared to the distribution of US climate opinions, Canadians believe climate change is happening at higher levels. This new opinion data set will support climate policy analysis and climate policy decision making at national, provincial and local levels.
- Subjects :
- Rural Population
Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Urban Population
Political economy of climate change
Distribution (economics)
Social Sciences
lcsh:Medicine
Surveys
Public opinion
Elections
global warming
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Geographical locations
050602 political science & public administration
Regional science
lcsh:Science
Climatology
Multidisciplinary
05 social sciences
Environmental resource management
Quebec
Regression analysis
Taxes
Lipids
0506 political science
Geography
Research Design
Regression Analysis
Research Article
Canada
General Science & Technology
Political Science
Climate Change
Public policy
Climate change
Public Policy
Climate policy
Research and Analysis Methods
risk perception
Humans
multilevel regression and poststratification
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Survey Research
business.industry
Global warming
lcsh:R
Biology and Life Sciences
United States
Risk perception
13. Climate action
Public Opinion
North America
Earth Sciences
lcsh:Q
Emissions trading
Rural area
People and places
business
Oils
Environmental Sciences
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environment and Society Faculty Publications, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 8, p e0159774 (2016), PloS one, vol 11, iss 8, PLoS ONE, Mildenberger, M; Howe, P; Lachapelle, E; Stokes, L; Marlon, J; & Gravelle, T. (2016). The Distribution of Climate Change Public Opinion in Canada. PLOS ONE, 11(8), e0159774. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159774. UC Santa Barbara: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8d7924bz
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa9abee3db11ffa4acadf32537609e7e