COVID-19 and climate change concerns in the United Kingdom

According to a representative longitudinal survey of more than 1,800 adults in the United Kingdom, conducted in April 2019 and June 2020, belief in the reality and severity of anthropogenic climate change has not diminished during the COVID-19 pandemic and more than half of respondents considered climate change to be a greater threat to Europe and to the world than COVID-19, suggesting that concern about climate change has become fixed in the UK public consciousness.

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Article #20-18936:

“Effect of “finite pool of worry” and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions,” by Darrick Evensen et al.

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