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· January 10, 2024

climate-change-american-mind-beliefs-attitudes-fall-2023-6.4

These bar charts show the percentage of Americans who are worried about harm from environmental problems in their local area, including extreme heat, flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, water shortages, reduced snow pack, rising sea levels, agricultural pests and diseases, tornados, air pollution, water pollution, and electricity power outages. A majority of Americans are worried about harm from environmental problems in their local area. Data: Climate Change in the American Mind, Fall 2023. Refer to the data tables in Appendix 1 of the report for all percentages.