Climate Change in the American Mind

CLÍMATE CHANGE IN THE AMERICAN MIND A GROWING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS BELIEVE GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING 80 80. 13% increase -..... 40 BELIEVE GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING 40 ---.. BELIEVE GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT HAPPENING 11 08 11 10 11 12 WITH A NEW MAJORITY WHICH BELIEVES IT IS HUMAN CAUSED SHOULD BE A PRIORITY US SHOULD REDUCE FOR US PRESIDENT ITS GREENHOUSE AND CONGRESS GAS EMISSIONS LOW MEDIUM 80 80 Regardless of what other countries do 40 Don't know -----.. 40 Only if other industrialized & developing HIGH countries do so VERY HIGH PRIORITY 11 11 Only if other industrialized countries do so DEVELOPING GLOBAL Should not reduce 08 10 11 12 SOURCES OF WARMING CLEAN ENERGY INCREASINGLY, US CITZENS PERCEIVE GLOBAL WARMING AS A GROWING THREAT TO THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES PERSONALLY FAMILY COMMUNITY 40 40 20% 20% 11 11 08 10 11 12 MORE ARE VERY WORRIED SUPPORT REDUCTION EFFORT, EVEN IF HAS ECONOMIC COST BELIEVE IT TO BE A DISTANT THREAT GREAT DEAL OF HARM MODERATE AMOUNT 47% 26% 28% 29% 16 24% 12 19% 44% 24% 16% 18% 19% 21% NO SMALL-SCALE MEDIUM-SCALE LARGE-SCALE EFFORT PERSONALLY COMMUNITY VERY WORRIED SOMEWHAT WORRIED FAMILY FUTURE EFFORT EFFORT EFFORT GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE AMERICANS ARE NEEDING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING FEWER AMERICANS SAY THEIR CLIMATE SCIENTISTS MINDS COULD BE CHANGED MOST TRUSTED SOURCE ON GLOBAL WARMING OF INFORMATION 40% STRONGLY TRUST SOMEWHAT TRUST SOMEWHAT DISAGREE 100% STRONGLY DISAGREE SOMEWHAT AGREE MITT MAINSTREAM PRESIDENT ROMNEY NEWS OBAMA 3% STRONGLY AGREE "I COULD EASILY CHANGE TV WEATHER SCIENTIST CLIMATE MY MIND ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING" REPORTERS (NOT CLIMATE) SCIENTIST Data: Interviews: 1,061 Adults (18+). Total average margin of error: +/- 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The study was funded by the Surdna Foundation, the 11thHour Project, the Grantham Foundation, and the V.K. Rasmussen Foundation. Sources: Yale Project, George Mason University www.serviceoneac.com serviceone AIRCONDITIONING LIC NO. CAC1813760