Americans Doubt Countries Will Tame Climate Change, Pew Finds

Climate change is in the background this US election year as high prices, conflict in the Middle East, AI and other issues take center stage. But that doesn’t mean the public has forgotten about it.

More than half of Americans regard climate change as a very or moderately big problem, and only a quarter of them think the world is equipped to address the challenge, according to new survey results from the Pew Research Center.

Since the group’s previous poll on the topic in 2022, storms, heat and wildfires worsened by greenhouse gas pollution have continued to damage ...