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The recent Yale Climate Communications report — the gold-standard polling on climate opinion in the U.S. — is worth highlighting at some length, I think. (1/x) climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/c…
"Seven in ten Americans think global warming is happening. Only about one in six Americans think global warming is not happening. Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it isn’t by more than a 4 to 1."
"A majority of Americans are worried about harm from extreme events in their local area including extreme heat (69%), droughts (64%), flooding (60%), and/or water shortages (59%)."
"More than six in ten Americans (64%) say the issue of global warming is either 'extremely,' 'very,' or 'somewhat' important to them personally."
"Only about one in six (17%) understand how strong the level of consensus among scientists is (i.e., that more than 90% of climate scientists think human-caused global warming is happening)." One in six!
"About half of Americans (49%) think new technologies can solve global warming without individuals having to make big changes in their lives."
"More than four in ten Americans (44%) think they will be harmed by global warming, while more think their family (48%), and/or people in their community (48%) will be harmed."
"More than half of Americans think global warming will harm people in the S. (59%), people in developing countries (64%), the world’s poor (64%), future generations of people (69%), and/or plant and animal species (71%)."
And yet... "Only about half of Americans (51%) say they hear about global warming in the media at least once a month," and "about six in ten Americans (63%) say they 'rarely' or 'never' discuss global warming with family and friends." (x/x)
