TY - JOUR
T1 - Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas
AU - Evensen, Darrick
AU - Whitmarsh, Lorraine
AU - Devine-Wright, Patrick
AU - Dickie, Jennifer
AU - Bartie, Phil
AU - Foad, Colin
AU - Ryder, Stacia
AU - Mayer, Adam
AU - Varley, Adam
N1 - Funding Information:
This research received funding from a grant under the Unconventional Hydrocarbons in the UK Energy System research programme of UK Research and Innovation (funded through the Natural Environment Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council), grant reference no. NE/R017727/1 (awarded to D.E., L.W., P.D.W., J.D., P.B. and M.B.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2023/3/2
Y1 - 2023/3/2
N2 - Tense global politics, spikes in gas prices and increasingly urgent warnings about climate change raise questions over the future use of natural gas. UK longitudinal survey data reveal that beliefs about climate change increasingly reduced support for gas extraction between 2019 and 2022. Mounting public connections between climate and gas use suggest growing opportunities for climate communication to lower support for all fossil fuels, not just the more carbon-intensive oil and coal.
AB - Tense global politics, spikes in gas prices and increasingly urgent warnings about climate change raise questions over the future use of natural gas. UK longitudinal survey data reveal that beliefs about climate change increasingly reduced support for gas extraction between 2019 and 2022. Mounting public connections between climate and gas use suggest growing opportunities for climate communication to lower support for all fossil fuels, not just the more carbon-intensive oil and coal.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41558-023-01622-7
DO - 10.1038/s41558-023-01622-7
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 13
SP - 240
EP - 243
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 3
ER -
