Report · Feb 28, 2015
Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024
By Julia Fine, Joshua Ettinger, Emily Goddard, John Kotcher, Hilyatuz Zakiyyah, Yuan Yue, Jennifer Carman, Seth Rosenthal, Kathryn Thier, Teresa Myers, Marija Verner, Jennifer Marlon, Emily Richards, Matthew Goldberg, Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach
Filed under: Climate Impacts and Beliefs & Attitudes
5. Trusted Information Sources
5.1 Trust in various information sources about the health harms of global warming has increased.
Six in ten Americans “strongly trust” or “moderately trust” first responders such as firefighters and emergency medical responders (60%, not asked on previous surveys) and their primary care doctors (60%, an increase of 11 percentage points since 2014) as sources of information about health problems related to global warming. Half of Americans trust climate scientists (50%, +10 points) as a source of this information. Many Americans also trust the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (48%, +7 points), the American Medical Association (47%, +7 points), their local public health department (45%, +11 points), the World Health Organization (44%, +7 points), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (43%, +9 points), environmental organizations (40%, +9 points), television weather reporters (36%, +10 points), and journalists (21%, not previously asked) as information sources.
