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2.1. Most Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming.
Most Americans (64%) say they are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming, an increase of six percentage points over the past five years (since March 2016). One in four Americans (25%) are “very worried,” an increase of nine percentage points over the past five years.
Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Rosenthal, S., Kotcher, J., Carman, J., Wang, X., Marlon, J., Lacroix, K., & Goldberg, M. (2021). Climate Change in the American Mind, March 2021. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
The research was funded by the Schmidt Family Foundation, the U.S. Energy Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Grantham Foundation.
