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.