(Press-News.org) Public attitudes around solar geoengineering become less politically partisan with more familiarity, suggesting that increasing public awareness of the technology could foster bipartisan engagement.
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Article URL: https://plos.io/4elOWIw
Article Title: Political ideology and views toward solar geoengineering in the United States
Author Countries: United Kingdom, United States
Funding: RMA and BM's work is supported by Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute. DE's work on this project was originally supported by Caltech's Resnick Sustainability Institute while he was a PhD Candidate at Caltech. RD's work is supported by the Cambridge Arts, Humanities and Social Science (AHSS) Grants and the Bill \& Melinda French Gates Foundation (OPP1144).
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Public attitudes around solar geoengineering become less politically partisan with more familiarity
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