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Support or opposition to US withdrawal from, or rejoining of, the Paris Climate Agreement; the direction of the wording differs between items (withdraw in 2018 and 2020, rejoin in 2022), so the series should be read with the reversal in mind.
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Latest: 60% answered “Favor US participation in Paris Agreement” in CES: Support for rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, 2022.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement | Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement President Trump has issued many orders over the first year of his presidency. Do you support or oppose each of the following decisions? [Withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.] Caveat: Withdraw wording, so codes are reversed. Framed as a Trump decision, which may add partisan cueing. | equivalent | Support → Oppose US participation in Paris Agreement; Oppose → Favor US participation in Paris Agreement |
| CES: Withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement | Withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement For each of the following tell us whether you support or oppose these decisions. [Withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.] Caveat: Withdraw wording, so codes are reversed. No explicit Trump attribution. | equivalent | Support → Oppose US participation in Paris Agreement; Oppose → Favor US participation in Paris Agreement |
| CES: Support for rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement | Support for rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement For each of the following tell us whether you support or oppose these decisions. [The United States re-joins the Paris Climate Agreement] Caveat: Rejoin wording, the opposite direction from 2018 and 2020. Support now means favoring participation, and the status quo differs. | similar | Support → Favor US participation in Paris Agreement; Oppose → Oppose US participation in Paris Agreement |