Stop Telling People Climate Change Is Here — They Already Know
A new study shows most people believe climate change is happening and impacting their daily lives.
Demonstrators during a die-in for climate change in Boston, Massachusetts, US, on Tuesday, July 5, 2022.
Photographer: M. Scott Brauer/BloombergMost people are perfectly aware that climate change is affecting their home country and community right now, according to a new study that debunks long-held beliefs on the public’s perception of global warming.
For years, campaigners raising awareness on climate change wrongly focused on showing it’s not a distant phenomenon because they assumed that’s what people believe, according to a scientific paper published on One Earth on Friday. Researchers from the University of Groningen reviewed 27 opinion polls over the past five years gathering the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people across the planet.