This survey represents the opinion of adults in the United States regarding how important they consider the issue of climate change between 2008 and 2020. As of April 2020, some 66 percent of the respondents said that the issue of global warming is extremely/very/somewhat important to them.
How important is the issue of global warming to you personally?*
* Original question: "How important is the issue of global warming to you personally?"
Figures for don't know or no response were not included.
Number of survey respondents vary by year:
• April 2020: Fielded April 7 – 17 (N = 1,029)
• November 2019: Fielded November 8 – November 20 (N = 1,303)
• December 2018: Fielded November 28 – December 11 (N = 1,114)
• March 2018: Fielded March 7 – March 24 (N = 1,278)
• October 2017: Fielded October 20 – November 1 (N = 1,304)
• November 2016: Fielded November 18 – December 1 (N = 1,226)
• October 2015: Fielded September 30 – October 19 (N = 1,330)
• October 2014: Fielded October 17 – 28 (N = 1,275)
• November 2013: Fielded November 23 – December 9 (N = 830)
• September 2012: Fielded August 31 – September 12 (N = 1,061)
• November 2011: Fielded October 20 – November 16 (N = 1,000)
• June 2010: Fielded May 14 – June 1 (N = 1,024)
• November 2008: Fielded October 7 – November 12 (N = 2,164).
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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, & Center For Climate Change Communication. (May 18, 2020). How important is the issue of global warming to you personally?* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 28, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/960831/personal-importance-of-global-warming-on-us-adults/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, und Center For Climate Change Communication. "How important is the issue of global warming to you personally?*." Chart. May 18, 2020. Statista. Accessed May 28, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/960831/personal-importance-of-global-warming-on-us-adults/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Center For Climate Change Communication. (2020). How important is the issue of global warming to you personally?*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 28, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/960831/personal-importance-of-global-warming-on-us-adults/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and Center For Climate Change Communication. "How Important Is The Issue of Global Warming to You Personally?*." Statista, Statista Inc., 18 May 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/960831/personal-importance-of-global-warming-on-us-adults/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication & Center For Climate Change Communication, How important is the issue of global warming to you personally?* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/960831/personal-importance-of-global-warming-on-us-adults/ (last visited May 28, 2020)
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