More Americans now see climate change as a top priority. But there’s still reluctance to let go of fossil fuels, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Attitudes are slowly changing.

More Americans than ever—about 25%—view climate change as “extremely personally important,” according to a poll released last week by Stanford University, Resources for the Future and ReconMR.

American attitudes towards climate change are less influenced by politicians than they are their own experiences, specifically with weather.

Six-in-ten U.S. adults say that they are concerned that global climate change will harm them personally, compared with a median of 72% who say the same across the 17 publics. However, 74% of Americans ...

The steadiness of American attitudes, Dr. Leiserowitz said, suggests that “climate change has matured as an issue” and become “a durable worry” in millions of Americans’ minds.

Only 52 percent of those polled in 2022 said they felt their personal actions have an effect on climate change, down from 66 percent in 2019. In addition, in the past around half of those polled ...

Most Americans say they want the U.S. to take “aggressive” action to stop climate change, yet only a minority would put up with even small increases in their taxes or electricity bills to do so.

Illinois Democratic governor, J.B. Pritzker, declared in January that “climate change is real” and that the state’s emissions would fall by at least 26% (compared with 2005) by 2025.

Last month, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out with a synthesis of recent climate reports. The news is not good. How do we respond? We have heard their prognosis ...

Overall, according to that poll, “less than half (46%) of the American public sees climate change as a very serious problem.” There has also been a drop in support for government action on ...

The survey on Americans’ attitudes toward climate action has been repeated since 1997. This year’s survey found 36% of respondents thought climate action would harm the economy.

As climate change dropped its calling card on the East Coast last week in the form of thick, dangerous smoke, millions of Americans and Canadians shared the jarring experience — forced to ...