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Over half of Americans are worried about global warming; only one in six are “very worried.”
Over half of Americans (57%) say they are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming, a decrease of 4 percentage points from our previous survey in November 2016. About one in six Americans (17%) are “very worried.”
Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Roser-Renouf, C., Rosenthal, S., & Cutler, M. (2017). Climate change in the American mind: May 2017. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
The research was funded by the 11th Hour Project, the U.S. Energy Foundation, the Grantham Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.