Climate Worries Rise but Dialogue Fades

It also found that a growing proportion of Americans say that climate change is affecting people in the U.S. now.

“Despite that fact, the extent to which people hear about climate change in the media has been on the decline. We have reached the lowest point in how often people hear about it since we began our survey in 2015,” noted John Kotcher, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University.