Opinion Today

June 9, 2023

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2023
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication & George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication
Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it is not happening by a ratio of nearly 5 to 1. About half of Americans (48%) think people in the United States are being harmed by global warming “right now,” and nearly as many (44%) say they have personally experienced the effects of global warming.

Views of State of Moral Values in U.S. at New Low
Megan Brenan, Gallup
Americans’ already poor ratings of the state of moral values in the U.S. have fallen further to the lowest point in Gallup’s 22-year trend. The 54% of U.S. adults who rate moral values in the country as “poor” marks a four-percentage-point increase since last year and the first time the reading has reached the majority level.