Report · Jun 2, 2016
Climate Change in the American Mind: March, 2016
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Connie Roser-Renouf, Geoff Feinberg and Seth Rosenthal
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes
4. Talking and Hearing about Global Warming
4.1. Three in ten Americans discuss global warming with family and friends “often” or “occasionally.”
Thirty-one percent of Americans say they discuss global warming with family and friends at least occasionally, while most say they rarely or never discuss it (69%). These numbers have remained fairly stable for the past five years.
4.2. Fewer than half of Americans hear about global warming in the media or from people they know at least once a month.
About one in five Americans say they hear about global warming in the media at least once a week (22%), and another one in five say they hear about it at least once a month (22%). About one in six (15%) say they hear about global warming in the media no more often than once a year, if ever.
Most Americans (68%) say they hear people they know talking about global warming no more often than several times a year if ever.
