The literature on the emergence of climate change as a security problem notes the lack of studies of audiences that enable the successful construction of climate change as a security issue. While previous studies consider different types of audiences, we focus on public opinion, which provides moral support for securitising moves, to investigate what individual and country level conditions facilitate individuals to identify climate change as a threat to humanity or a risk to themselves. We do so by analysing public attitudes towards climate security in 24 nations covered by the 2015 Pew Global Attitudes Survey. We differentiate between the logics of securitisation and riskification, and different referent objects such as humanity and self. We then identify the patterns of threat and risk perception towards different referent objects in climate security. We find that individuals’ personal insecurities translate into perceived personal risk from climate change while perceived threats to humanity from climate change are related to cognitive resources and sophistication.

关于气候变化作为安全问题出现的文献指出，缺乏能够成功地将气候变化构建为安全问题的受众研究。虽然之前的研究考虑了不同类型的受众，但我们专注于为证券化举措提供道义支持的公众舆论，以调查哪些个人和国家层面的条件有助于个人将气候变化识别为对人类的威胁或对自己的风险。为此，我们分析了 2015 年皮尤全球态度调查涵盖的 24 个国家的公众对气候安全的态度。我们区分证券化和风险化的逻辑，以及人性和自我等不同的指称对象。然后，我们确定气候安全中对不同参照对象的威胁和风险感知模式。我们发现，个人的个人不安全感转化为感知到的气候变化带来的个人风险，而感知到的气候变化对人类的威胁与认知资源和复杂性有关。