Klaus, Geraldine; et al. (2019): Psychological factors influencing laypersons’ acceptance of climate engineering, climate change mitigation and business as usual scenarios
Klaus, Geraldine; Ernst, Andreas; Oswald, Lisa (2019): Psychological factors influencing laypersons’ acceptance of climate engineering, climate change mitigation and business as usual scenarios. In Technology in Society, p. 101222. DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2019.101222.
„In July 2017, we assessed public reactions from the German population in a representative online survey. Participants were given a brief text informing them about climate change and one of four different scenarios in a between-subject design (N = 678). Two of the scenarios described the use of climate engineering technologies – stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) – one of them covered conventional mitigation strategies and the fourth group was given an outline of the business-as-usual (BAU) approach.“