Only about half of U.S. teens can correctly identify the causes of climate change
Climate Connections

Only about half of U.S. teens can correctly identify the causes of climate change

B1IntermediateOctober 9, 20261 min

But over 80% say they're worried about it. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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But Laura Shifter of the Aspen Institute says a recent survey that her group commissioned

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. More than 80% of young people in the U.S. say they are worried about climate change. Whether it's going outside to play an extreme heat or if it's about the jobs that they're going to be able to access in the future, the world that they are living in is being

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shaped by our changing climate. But Laura Shifter of the Aspen Institute says a recent survey that her group commissioned reveals that many teens do not fully understand the issue. Only about half of the teens surveyed know that climate change

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is mostly caused by carbon pollution from human activities like burning fossil fuels. And even fewer know that nearly all climate scientists have concluded that human activity is causing climate change.

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