New Jersey

Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2025

Public opinion data come from the Yale Climate Opinion Maps (YCOM), which are based on a statistical model that employs nationally representative Climate Change in the American Mind (CCAM) surveys conducted between 2008 and 2025. The model combines geographic, census, socioeconomic, and political data with CCAM survey data collected by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (combined n > 34,000). For more information about the survey question wording and methodology, please visit YCOM: climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us

Global warming is happening

75%

New Jersey

Global warming is caused mostly by human activities

65%

Most scientists think global warming is happening

63%

Global warming is affecting the weather

71%

Global warming is affecting extreme heat

71%

Global warming is affecting wildfires

70%

Global warming is affecting droughts

68%

Global warming is affecting rising sea levels

65%

Global warming is affecting flooding

68%

Global warming is affecting hurricanes

68%

Has personally experienced the effects of global warming

50%

Worried about global warming

71%

New Jersey

Global warming is already harming people in the US

59%

Global warming will harm plants and animals

76%

Global warming will harm future generations

74%

Global warming will harm people in developing countries

71%

Global warming will harm people in the US

66%

Global warming will harm me personally

47%

U.S. economy transition from fossil fuels to 100% clean energy by 2050

71%

New Jersey

Fund research into renewable energy sources

82%

Generate renewable energy on public land in the US

78%

Build solar farms in your local area

59%

Build wind farms in your local area

54%

Regulate CO2 as a pollutant

80%

Require fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax

74%

Oppose drilling and mining for fossil fuels on public land

55%

Drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

31%

Expand offshore drilling for oil and natural gas off the U.S. coast

45%

Schools should teach about global warming

82%

Prefer to vote for a candidate for public office who supports action on global warming

62%

Discuss global warming with family and friends

36%

Hear about global warming in the media at least once a week

18%

The President

Congress

My Governor

My Local Govt. Officials

Citizens

Corporations

66%

67%

59%

58%

65%

74%

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