What are your beliefs about climate change? How do these thoughts affect your behaviors and policy opinions? Take this survey to find out what your answers say about you, your relationship to climate change, and your lifestyle. See where you fall on the spectrum of American attitudes about climate change, and compare your results with other quiz-takers.

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Recently, you may have noticed that global warming has been getting some attention in the news. Global warming refers to the idea that the world's average temperature has been increasing over the past 150 years, may be increasing more in the future, and that the world's climate may change as a result. What do you think? Do you think that global warming is happening? Yes No Don't know

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About A Matter of Degree
Created by KQED Public Broadcasting, A Matter of Degree is based on a 2009 analysis of a nationally representative study of 2,164 American adults conducted in the fall of 2008 called "Global Warming's Six Americas". This survey and analysis, and A Matter of Degree's climate profile algorithm, were developed by the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. Survey data will be aggregated and used in ongoing research on attitudes about climate change.