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- Successive generations are predicted to experience progressively greater unprecedented lifetime exposure events such as heat waves. About 111 million children born in 2020 will live with unprecedented heatwave exposure in a world that warms by 3.5 °C, compared with 62 million with only 1.5 °C of warming. (en)
- Global warming—the progression from cooler historical temperatures to recent warmer temperatures —is being experienced disproportionately by younger generations. (en)
- In this 2022 Pew survey, a majority said climate change is a major threat to their country, with respondents from almost half the countries ranking climate change highest of five listed threats. (en)
- A broad range of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been proposed, but public support differs consistently along party lines. (en)
- Google Trends data shows that online searches for the terms, climate crisis and climate emergency, surged in 2019. A similar surge occurred after the 2006 Al Gore documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. (en)
- In a UNDP survey covering 77 countries, most respondents from top fossil fuel-producing countries favored a quick transition away from fossil fuels. (en)
- The sharp divide over the existence of and responsibility for global warming and climate change falls largely along political lines. Overall, 60% of Americans surveyed said oil and gas companies were "completely or mostly responsible" for climate change. (en)
- National political divides on the seriousness of climate change consistently correlate with political ideology, with right-wing opinion being more negative. (en)
- Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future movement, begun in August 2018, has been influential in raising public awareness of the threat from global warming, her influence described as the Greta effect. (en)
- Educated and uneducated Republicans are almost equally likely to think that climate change is not human caused. Whereas opinions favoring becoming carbon neutral declined substantially with age among Republicans, but not among Democrats. (en)
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