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Home / Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2024

Report · Jul 16, 2024

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2024

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

Data Tables can be found beginning on p. 35 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. Global Warming and Personal Agency
  • 6. Impacts of Global Warming
  • 7. How Americans Conceptualize 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., Myers, T., Marlon, J., Lee, S., Goldberg, M., Badullovich, N., & Thier, K. (2024). Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2024. 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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Climate Change in the American Mind

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