Report · Nov 19, 2015
Climate Change in the American Mind: October 2015
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Connie Roser-Renouf, Geoff Feinberg and Seth Rosenthal
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes
5. Taking Action
Americans Are Most Likely to Say Corporations and Industry, Citizens Themselves, and the United States Should Be Doing More to Address Global Warming.
Americans think both the private and public sectors should be doing more to address global warming.
At least two in three Americans say corporations and industry (72%), citizens themselves (67%), and the United States (64%) should be doing “much more” or “more” to address global warming.
Half or more also believe the Federal Government should be doing more:
- The U.S. Congress (59%)
- President Obama (49%)
Six in ten Americans (62%) say the U.S. should reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do. Relatively few (12%) say the U.S. should reduce its emissions only if other industrialized and/or developing countries do – and only 6% of Americans say the U.S. should not reduce its greenhouse gas emissions at all.