Which Voters Believe in Climate Change?

Yale University has mapped out the results of a detailed survey into the views of Democratic and Republican voters about climate change. Democratic and Republican Views of Climate Change includes a number of maps which show the views of Democratic and Republican voters across the United States when they were asked about their beliefs, attitudes and policy preferences around global warming.


Do you think global warming is happening? - Democrats left map, Republicans right map

I suspect the results of Yale's survey into climate change won't be too surprising to most people. For example the maps above show the response of Democrats (left map) and Republicans (right map) to the question 'Do you believe global warming in happening?'. The results show that across the whole of the United States a majority of Democrat voters believe that global warming is a scientific fact. However in many parts of the USA a majority of Republicans don't think that global warming is actually happening.

What is particular useful is that you can view the results at congressional district level. Across the whole of the United States a small majority of Republican voters (52%) actually do believe that global warming is happening. However the map allows you to see in which states and congressional districts the majority of Republicans are in a state of denial.


Should citizens should do more to address global warming? - Democrats left map, Republicans right map

Many of the responses to the attitudes of voters towards global warming are very enlightening. For example the two maps above show the responses of Democrat and Republican voters to the question 'Should citizens do more to address global warming?' In most areas of the U.S. Republican voters (those who vote for the party of small government and personal individual responsibility) don't believe that they should do anything themselves to address global warming. Although to be fair to Republican voters, although a majority of them think that global warming is happening, most of them also don't think that the government should do anything to stop it.