About two-thirds of Americans say they are worried climate changeNearly 8 in 10 Americans support funding renewable energy research, and 3 in 4 support regulating carbon emissions. More than 60 percent say Congress should do more to combat climate change, according to data from the Yale Climate Change Communications Program.
Even in Jack County, Texas, where Donald Trump received 90% of the vote in 2020, 58% of respondents support regulating carbon emissions. That’s the lowest rate of any county in the US.
Yet climate change remains a deeply polarizing issue in Congress and internationally. election campaign.
Inflation Reduction Act The 2022 plan, which the White House called “the most significant climate action in U.S. history,” allocated nearly $400 billion to climate solutions. It passed Congress along strictly partisan lines, with no Republicans voting for it.
In 2023, Democrats voted for pro-environmental legislation more than 90% of the time, while Republicans voted for pro-environmental legislation less than 5% of the time, according to voting data collected by the League of Conservation Voters.
“We find that across the board, at all levels of government, government officials dramatically underestimate the level of support among their own constituents,” Tony Leiserowitz, director of Yale’s climate change communications program, told CBS News.
Answer the questions below — which are a selection of the same questions asked by the Yale program’s survey to create their climate opinion maps — to see how your beliefs about climate change compare to those of others in your area and around the country.
