We explore how extreme event experience relates to climate policy support in the U.S. We add three important yet uncommon elements to this field: we verify self-reports of extreme event experience with actual weather data; we use a willingness-to-pay measure to assess behavioral intention; and we analyze which types of extreme events have stronger impacts on WTP. People who self-report extreme weather events are willing to pay approximately $112/year more for climate mitigation policy than those who do not; people for whom those self-reports match recorded data are willing to pay $106 or $71 more (controlling for climate beliefs and political ideology and depending on how unverified reporters are treated). Wildfires have the strongest influence on WTP. Though our results show that political ideology correlates more strongly with policy support than does extreme event experience, extreme event experience exhibits a robust correlation with policy support, and could result in a minimum of billions of dollars of support annually for clean-energy policy alone.

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极端天气事件的经验增加了气候缓解政策的支付意愿

我们探索极端事件经历与美国气候政策支持的关系。我们在这一领域添加了三个重要但不常见的元素：我们用实际天气数据验证极端事件经历的自我报告；我们使用支付意愿指标来评估行为意图；我们分析了哪些类型的极端事件对支付意愿有更强的影响。自我报告极端天气事件的人愿意比不自我报告的人每年为气候缓解政策多支付约 112 美元；那些自我报告与记录数据相符的人愿意多支付 106 美元或 71 美元（控制气候信仰和政治意识形态，并取决于如何对待未经证实的记者）。野火对支付意愿的影响最大。尽管我们的研究结果表明，与极端事件经历相比，政治意识形态与政策支持的相关性更强，但极端事件经历与政策支持表现出很强的相关性，仅每年就可能为清洁能源政策带来至少数十亿美元的支持。