Yale Climate Opinion Maps

The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) conducts scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior at the global, national, and local scales. YPCCC has collaborated with the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication to assemble a freely available dataset, which has been used to create interactive partisan climate opinion maps of the United States. These maps, also known as the Yale Climate Opinion maps, provide detailed information about climate change beliefs, risk perception and policy support for climate-related policy at the state and local level. Model estimates in the maps were derived from public responses to the survey questions and the methodology is cross-validated using three different methods.