Matto Mildenberger

TL;DR: A study of public opinion in the United States revealed substantial variation across the nation as discussed by the authors on climate change action, and public support for climate change requires public action on the ground truth.

TL;DR: The authors found that congressional staff systematically mis-estimate constituent opinions, and evaluated the sources of these misperceptions, using observational analyses and two survey experiments, concluding that scholars should focus more closely on legislative aides as key actors in the policymaking process.

TL;DR: This article examined the distribution and content of second-order climate beliefs in the United States and China, drawing from six new opinion surveys of mass publics, political elites and intellectual elites.

TL;DR: This article reviewed 73 papers that have studied the relationship between climate change experiences and public opinion and found mixed evidence that weather shapes climate opinions, and they suggested that future studies pay careful attention to differences between self-reported and objective weather data, causal identification, and the presence of spatial autocorrelation in weather and climate data.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a majority of the Canadian public consistently believes that climate change is happening, and majority support for carbon cap and trade policy in every province and district is found.