Report · Dec 17, 2025
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, 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: Policy & Politics
11. Educating Students About Global Warming
The Next Generation Science Standards for K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education in the United States recommend that climate change be included in school science curricula.
A large majority of registered voters (73%) agree that schools should teach children about the causes and consequences of global warming, and potential solutions. This includes nearly all liberal and moderate/conservative Democrats (98% and 93% respectively), 71% of liberal/moderate Republicans, but fewer conservative Republicans (37%; 14 percentage points lower than when we last asked this question in Spring 2025).
