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Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2024
Public opinion about global warming is an important influence on decision-making about policies to reduce global warming or prepare for the impacts, but American opinions vary widely depending on where people live. These national surveys show that 72% of Americans think global warming is happening. This new Climate Opinion Maps model estimates, however, show that only 53% of people in Emery County, Utah agree. Meanwhile 72% in neighboring Grand County, Utah believe global warming is happening. Explore the maps by clicking on a state, congressional district, metro area, or county and compare the results across questions and with other geographic areas. This version of the Yale Climate Opinion Maps is based on survey data from 2008 through fall 2024. Public opinion polling is generally done at the national level because local-level polling is very costly and time-intensive. However, Yale developed a geographic and statistical model to downscale national public opinion results to the state, congressional district, and county levels.