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The Monmouth University poll, conducted on April 18-22 shows a 10-point decline in Americans who says climate change is a “very serious” problem, falling from 56 percent in September 2021 to 46 percent in April.


The idea is that opinions have evolved because other situations changed in the background of this, from 2021.

Maybe so.

I agree a LOT of stuff was not normal in September 2020.  But the poll dates from 2021.

I will say Sept 2021 felt fairly normal even here in CA. By summer 2021 we had taken an overnight trip to San Diego and then a vacation to Seattle, so obviously we were willing to get on an airplane for non-work reasons. 

However when Omicron hit in Nov 2021, it threw everyone for a bit of a loop. We didn't all know it was going to be so mild when cases started spiking like crazy. 

But the entire point was that outside events might be coloring how people responded to the two polls over a two-year gap. Someone who is worried about outside things, such as inflation, two wars, the coming election, etc, might not be thinking as much about climate change and even if they rationally believe the problem is as serious as they believed two years ago, may not say "very serious" when a pollster asks them because they're preoccupied with other stuff right now. 

And as I mentioned in my response to badge, the current poll was listed as only 808 participants with a +/- 4.1% margin of accuracy, which is pretty wide. Especially since they tried to dive deeper into the sub-demographics of the polling group and track changes within young people vs older people, which probably has an even wider margin of accuracy as the sample sizes of the sub-demographics are smaller. 

It suggests an interesting possible trend, that's all.