This survey represents the priorities of adults in the United States regarding what should be protected from the effects of global warming. As of April 2020, protecting agriculture, water supplies and people's health from the effects of global warming were most considered as high priority .
Climate change protection priorities in the United States in 2020*
Responses may not add up to 100 percent due to those that did not answer.
Question originally phrased as "in your opinion, how much priority should your state and local governments give to protecting each of the following from the effects of global warming over the next 10 years?"
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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, & George Mason University. (May 18, 2020). Climate change protection priorities in the United States in 2020* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121261/global-warming-opinion-state-protection/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, und George Mason University. "Climate change protection priorities in the United States in 2020*." Chart. May 18, 2020. Statista. Accessed November 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121261/global-warming-opinion-state-protection/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, George Mason University. (2020). Climate change protection priorities in the United States in 2020*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121261/global-warming-opinion-state-protection/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and George Mason University. "Climate Change Protection Priorities in The United States in 2020*." Statista, Statista Inc., 18 May 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121261/global-warming-opinion-state-protection/
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication & George Mason University, Climate change protection priorities in the United States in 2020* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121261/global-warming-opinion-state-protection/ (last visited November 26, 2024)
Climate change protection priorities in the United States in 2020* [Graph], Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, & George Mason University, May 18, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121261/global-warming-opinion-state-protection/