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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02594-4
	Approval of political leaders can slant evaluation of political issues: evidence from public concern for climate change in the USA
	Shao W.; Hao F.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	201
结束页码	212
卷号	158 期号:2
英文摘要	Climate change has become one of the signature issues that divide the American public. Numerous empirical studies of the past two decades have identified the politicization of this issue. In recent years, the concurrence of rising extreme weather events and uptick in public concern for climate change has led to common speculation that the former may drive up the latter. Using a nationally representative survey dataset combined with climate extremes data including extreme heat, extreme precipitation, and mild drought or worse, we use Structural Equation Modeling to examine how politics and climate extremes altogether shape American public concern for climate change. In addition to confirming politicization of climate change, we find that approval of President Trump not only promotes skeptical climate change perceptions but also serves as an intervening amplifier of these perceptions for Republicans and conservatives. Thus, one’s concern for climate change is partially explained by their political identification and partially explained by their levels of approval of Trump. With the 2020 presidential election underway, it remains to be seen how attitudes towards presidential candidates can affect climate change perceptions and support for climate policies. The widely speculated role of climate extremes however fails to show significant effects in views towards climate change. We provide explanations for this insignificant finding. The study ends by calling for more studies to further investigate the drivers of formation of opinions towards climate change. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Approval of Trump; Climate extremes; Concern for climate change; Structural Equation Modeling
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Digital storage; Precipitation (meteorology); Approval of Trump; Change perceptions; Climate extremes; Extreme precipitation; Extreme weather events; Presidential candidates; Presidential election; Structural equation modeling; Climate change; climate change; data set; election; empirical analysis; extreme event; numerical model; perception; political system; precipitation (climatology); United States
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147332
作者单位	Department of Geography, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States; Department of Social Sciences, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shao W.,Hao F.. Approval of political leaders can slant evaluation of political issues: evidence from public concern for climate change in the USA[J],2020,158(2).
APA	Shao W.,&Hao F..(2020).Approval of political leaders can slant evaluation of political issues: evidence from public concern for climate change in the USA.Climatic Change,158(2).
MLA	Shao W.,et al."Approval of political leaders can slant evaluation of political issues: evidence from public concern for climate change in the USA".Climatic Change 158.2(2020).