Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half - Nature Communications

www.nature.com Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half - Nature Communications

A new study finds that Americans underestimate how many are concerned about climate change as well as support for major climate policies by nearly half, with climate policy supporters significantly outnumbering non-supporters.

Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half - Nature Communications

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Americans generally support climate policy, but they think others generally don't

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Most likely because one of the 2 major American political parties denies it exists, and the other is dragging its feet on implementing green energy
- Republicans only make up like 30% of the population but our system of representation makes them seem like half.
  
  They make themselves seem like half by changing rules and district maps, to steal half of the representation
  
  The districts are only part of the problem. The Constitution gives low population states a lot more power in both the Senate and Electoral College. Even if we fix the House districts they'll still have a bigger voice than they actually do.
  For example, only once in the last 30 years has a Republican won the popular vote for the presidency, but they've held the office for 12 of those years.
- Yeah that seems like basically they argument.
  Preliminary evidence suggests three sources of these misperceptions: (i) consistent with a false consensus effect, respondents who support these policies less (conservatives) underestimate support by a greater degree; controlling for one’s own personal politics, (ii) exposure to more conservative local norms and (iii) consuming conservative news correspond to greater misperceptions.

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