In 2018, Americans watched as California towns were incinerated by fires, hurricanes devastated coastal communities and a government report sounded the alarm about the impacts of a changing climate.
All those factors contributed to significant changes in perceptions of global warming in the U.S., according to the authors of a new public opinion survey.
The proportion of Americans who said global warming is “personally important” to them jumped from 63 percent to 72 percent from March to December of last year.
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