Record Numbers of Americans Say They Care About Global Warming, Poll Finds

The rise in the number of Americans who say global warming is personally important to them jumped nine percentage points since March 2018 to 72 percent.

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“I’ve never seen jumps in some of the key indicators like this,” the lead researcher said.

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A record number of Americans understand that climate change is real, according to a new survey, and they are increasingly worried about its effects in their lives today.

Some 73 percent of Americans polled late last year said that global warming was happening, the report found, a jump of 10 percentage points from 2015 and three points since last March.

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