EDGE SENSE: Energy Decarbonization and GeoEngineering Survey Experiment for New Sampling and Mode Exploration, United States, 2023

EDGE SENSE is a project to test innovations in measuring public opinion on energy decarbonization and geoengineering (also known as climate engineering). By running five surveys in the same timeframe, researchers compared how survey mode and sampling might affect the measurement of public sentiments. The five samples were selected via address-based sampling (ABS), random-digit-dial (RDD), an opt-in panel, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), and a college classroom. The RDD sample was surveyed over the phone; the rest were surveyed online.
With these five samples, researchers measured two key items. The first is the prioritization of energy decarbonization options. Respondents were asked to rank six options:

Solar farms
Rooftop solar
On-land wind turbines
Offshore wind turbines
Nuclear
Fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage

The second phenomenon under study is how different online samples respond to an experiment providing information about climate engineering. (The RDD sample was not included in this.)