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Home / Climate Change in the American Mind, April 2022

Report · Jul 21, 2022

Climate Change in the American Mind, April 2022

By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Jennifer Carman, Liz Neyens, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg, Eryn Campbell, Karine Lacroix and Jennifer Marlon
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes and Climate Impacts
Go back to 6. Impacts of Global Warming
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Appendix I: Data Tables

Data Tables can be found beginning on p. 28 of the PDF version of the report:

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Table of Contents
  • Report Summary
  • Executive Summary
  • 1. Global Warming Beliefs
  • 2. Emotional Responses to Global Warming
  • 3. Perceived Risks of Global Warming
  • 4. Personal and Social Engagement with Global Warming
  • 5. Fatalism
  • 6. Impacts of Global Warming
  • Appendix I: Data Tables
  • Appendix II: Survey Method
  • Appendix III: Sample Demographics
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Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Rosenthal, S., Kotcher, J., Carman, J., Neyens, L., Myers, T., Goldberg, M., Campbell, E., Lacroix, K., & Marlon, J. (2022). Climate Change in the American Mind, April 2022. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

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The research was funded by the Schmidt Family Foundation, the U.S. Energy Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Grantham Foundation.

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