Disaster experience mitigates the partisan divide on climate change: Evidence from Texas

IF 5.4 2区医学 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102918

Ted Hsuan Yun Chen , Christopher J. Fariss , Hwayong Shin , Xu Xu

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Abstract

Despite the abundance of real world events and scientific information linking the worsening extreme weather to climate change, public attitudes toward climate issues in the United States remain highly divided along partisan lines. We compare the effect of different stimuli linking extreme weather events to climate change – personal experiences and scientific information – in reducing the partisan gap. A two-wave survey corresponding to multiple extreme weather events in Texas, including a natural experiment with power outage data from the 2021 North American Winter Storms, shows that personal experiences with extreme weather reduce the partisan divide in climate beliefs and polices. Scientific information attributing extreme weather events to climate change, however, had no effect in closing the partisan gap. These findings suggest that extreme climate events and disaster experiences force vividly tangible information about the proximity and severity of climate change on exposed individuals, prompting belief-updating and preference-shifting toward pro-climate policies.

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灾难经历减轻了党派在气候变化问题上的分歧：得克萨斯州的证据

尽管有大量的现实事件和科学信息将日益恶化的极端天气与气候变化联系起来，但美国公众对气候问题的态度仍然存在严重的党派分歧。我们比较了将极端天气事件与气候变化联系起来的不同刺激--个人经历和科学信息--在缩小党派差距方面的效果。与得克萨斯州多次极端天气事件相对应的两波调查（包括利用 2021 年北美冬季风暴的停电数据进行的自然实验）显示，个人极端天气经历缩小了气候信仰和政策方面的党派分歧。然而，将极端天气事件归因于气候变化的科学信息对缩小党派差距没有影响。这些研究结果表明，极端气候事件和灾难经历给受影响的个人带来了关于气候变化的接近性和严重性的生动具体的信息，促使他们更新信念并转向支持气候政策的偏好。

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