Sloot & Bostrom (2024): The role of framing in public support for direct air capture: A moral hazard survey experiment in the United States
Daniel Sloot, Ann Bostrom IN: Energy Research & Social Science, 116, 103694, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103694
Building on previous research, the authors investigate four novel ways of framing the use of a form of carbon removal from the atmosphere that is currently of broad interest, direct air capture (DAC). They frame DAC use in terms of either necessity (DAC for limiting climate change being either essential or dependent on future mitigation) or temporality (DAC of either past or future emissions from the atmosphere). In a survey experiment with a nationally representative U.S. sample (N = 2891) the authors examined how these frames affect public support and risk perceptions in the U.S. for DAC, and the roles of prior awareness of DAC, climate change worry, and their interactions with the different frames.