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· July 24, 2026

frontline-gw-attitudes-2rev

These range plots show the percentages of Americans who endorse various climate communication and attitude measures including perceptions of the scientific consensus, hearing about global warming in the media, thinking that it is not too late to act on global warming, perceptions of personal experience of global warming, and hearing friends and family talk about global warming at least once a month. Plots compare results for those in frontline communities and those not in frontline communities. Frontline communities are less likely to know there is scientific consensus that global warming is happening, or to hear about it in the media. Data: Climate Change in the American Mind, Sep 2021 to Apr 2024.