Report · Jul 8, 2025
Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2025
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Teresa Myers, Joshua Ettinger, Julia Fine, Emily Richards, Matthew Goldberg and Jennifer Marlon
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes, Behaviors & Actions and Climate Impacts
3. Emotional Responses to Global Warming
3.1 A majority of Americans are worried about global warming.
A majority of Americans (65%) say they are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming. This includes 29% who say they are “very worried.”
3.2 A majority of Americans are “interested” in global warming.
When asked how strongly they feel various emotions when thinking about global warming, more than half of Americans (58%) say they feel “very” or “moderately” interested. Additionally, many say they feel sad (44%), disgusted (44%), afraid (39%), anxious (39%), angry (39%), hopeful (38%; six percentage points lower than when we last asked this question in Spring 2024), outraged (36%), hopeless (34%), or depressed (28%).
