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Home / Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2025

Report · Jan 27, 2026

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2025

By Anthony Leiserowitz, John Kotcher, Seth Rosenthal, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Teresa Myers, Joshua Ettinger, Julia Fine, Emily Richards, Matthew Goldberg, Jennifer Marlon and Edward Maibach
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes, Behaviors & Actions and Climate Impacts
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Appendix I: Data Tables

Data Tables can be found beginning on p. 29 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. Emotional Responses to Global Warming
  • 4. Personal and Social Engagement with Global Warming
  • 5. Impacts of Global Warming
  • Appendix I: Data Tables
  • Appendix II: Survey Method
  • Appendix III: Sample Demographics
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Leiserowitz, A., Kotcher, J., Rosenthal, S., Goddard, E., Carman, J., Verner, M., Myers, T., Ettinger, J., Fine, J., Richards, E., Goldberg, M., Marlon, J., & Maibach, E. (2026). Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2025. 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 Heising-Simons Foundation, King Philanthropies, the Grantham Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.

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