Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
High-resolution survey-based estimates of climate change opinions in the United States across multiple geographies. Data available at national, state, county, and metro levels, with international coverage.
Survey data modeled with multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP). Provides estimates of public climate opinions at fine geographic resolution. The margin of error for the estimates ranges from plus or minus seven to eight percentage points, depending on the geographic layer. Smaller geographic areas have higher uncertainty than larger areas.
Marlon J.R., Wang, X., Bergquist, P., Howe, P., Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Mildenberger, E., Rosenthal, S. (2022). Changes in US state-level public opinion about climate change: 2008-2020. Environmental Research Letters 17, 124046. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/aca702
Howe, P., Mildenberger, M., Marlon J.R., Leiserowitz, A. (2015). Modelling US climate change opinion at state and local scales. Nature Climate Change, 5(6), 596-603. DOI:10.1038/nclimate2583
Percent of adults who agree that global warming is affecting the weather in the US
Percent of adults who think global warming is affecting droughts in the US
Percent of adults who think global warming is affecting flooding in the US
Percent of adults who think global warming is affecting extreme heat in the US
Percent of adults who think global warming is affecting hurricanes in the US
Percent of adults who think global warming is affecting rising sea levels in the US
Percent of adults who think global warming is affecting wildfires in the US
Percent of adults who think citizens should do more to address global warming
Percent of adults who think congress should do more to address global warming
Percent of adults who believe that most scientists think global warming is happening
Percent of adults who think corporations should do more to address global warming
Percent of adults who think global warming will harm people in developing countries a moderate amount or a great deal
Percent of adults who discuss global warming occassionally or often with friends and family
Percent of adults who support drilling for oil in the arctic national wildlife refuge
Percent of adults who support expanding offshore drilling for oil and natural gas off the USa coast
Percent of adults who say they have personally experienced the effects of global warming
Percent of adults who support funding research into renewable energy sources
Percent of adults who think global warming will harm future generations a moderate amount or a great deal
Percent of adults who support generating renewable energy on public land in the USa
Percent of adults who think their governor should do more to address global warming
Percent of adults who say a candidates views on global warming are important to their vote
Percent of adults who think that global warming is happening
Percent of adults who think global warming will harm plants and animal species a moderate amount or a great deal
Percent of adults who think global warming will harm people in the USa a moderate amount or a great deal
Percent of adults who think that global warming is caused mostly by human activities
Percent of adults who think their local officials should do more to address global warming
Percent of adults who hear about global warming in the media at least weekly
Percent of adults who think global warming will harm them personally a moderate amount or a great deal
Percent of adults who think the president should do more to address global warming
Percent of adults who say global warming should be a high priority for the next president and congress
Percent of adults who think that developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority for the president and congress
Percent of adults who support requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax and USe the money to reduce other taxes such as income tax by an equal amount
Percent of adults who support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant
Percent of adults who agree that schools should teach about the causes consequences and potential solutions to global warming
Percent of adults who think global warming will start to harm people in the USa now or within 10 years
Percent of adults who support US economy transition from fossil fuels to 100 clean energy by 2050
Percent of adults who are worried about global warming