Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas

Darrick Evensen; Lorraine Whitmarsh; Patrick Devine-Wright; Jen Dickie; Phil Bartie; Colin Foad; Mike Bradshaw; Stacia Ryder; Adam Mayer; Adam Varley

doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01622-7

Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas

Darrick Evensen^*
, Lorraine Whitmarsh
, Patrick Devine-Wright
, Jen Dickie
, Phil Bartie
, Colin Foad
, Mike Bradshaw
, Stacia Ryder
, Adam Mayer
, Adam Varley

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01622-7
Publication status	Published - 2 Mar 2023

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