A CNN report recently highlighted that 40 percent of Americans are greatly worried about climate change, unchanged since 2000. Despite rising extreme weather events, the connection between these events and climate change is often not made in media coverage. Only 12 percent of national TV news segments mentioned climate change during severe weather situations in summer 2024. A Yale survey found that only 29 percent of Americans are very worried about climate change, which is low considering its severe consequences globally.
Harry Enten pointed out that 40 percent of Americans are "greatly worried" about climate change, the same percentage as in 2000, despite extreme weather events.
Anthony Leiserowitz noted only 29 percent of Americans are "very worried" about climate change, a remarkably low number given its severe impacts globally.
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