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Home / Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023

Report · Jan 11, 2024

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023

By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Matthew Ballew, Marija Verner, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg, Nicholas Badullovich and Kathryn Thier
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes and Climate Impacts
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Appendix I: Data Tables

Data Tables can be found starting on p. 31 of the PDF version of the report:

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Table of Contents
  • Report Summary
  • Executive Summary
  • 1. Global Warming Beliefs
  • 2. Perceived Risks of Global Warming
  • 3. Global Warming, Emotional Responses, and Mental Health
  • 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., Goddard, E., Carman, J., Ballew, M., Verner, M., Marlon, J., Lee, S., Myers, T., Goldberg, M., Badullovich, N., & Thier, K. (2023). Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Funding Sources

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

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