In Focus: What Americans Think About Climate Change

As Americans prepare to vote this fall, how will climate change factor into their decisions at the polls? The first report in the Climate Insights 2024 series, set to be released throughout the summer and fall this year, finds that large majorities of Americans agree that climate change exists and want institutions to do more to address the issue. Jon Krosnick, a university fellow at RFF, describes the top-line findings of this first report in this In Focus video. Since 1997, Krosnick and other RFF researchers have tracked views held by Americans about climate change as part of the Climate Insights survey project. Find out how these views have changed over time.