Despite all the climate alarmism, majority of Americans don't consider climate change a concern

Harry Enten showing most Americans aren't concerned about climate change.

Polls continue to show that Americans, despite being lectured to ad nauseam by leftist elites, aren't buy into the climate hysteria. Climate change barely registers on Americans' list of concerns.

CNN data guru Harry Enten dove into the numbers in a segment that aired this week, showing that one recent poll showed that of all the top issues ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, climate change ranked in a tie for 14th place, with just 3% of respondents citing it as a major concern. 

In fact, climate hysteria in the U.S. appears to be in retreat. Enten cited polling data showing that 10 years ago, in 2016, 40% of Americans considered climate change a very big problem. As of 2026, that number has actually ticked down by a percentage point to 39%. Republicans appear to be most impervious to the climate hysteria and dogma, with 14% of Republicans saying climate change is the least important issue facing America, according to the Pew Research data Enten cited. 

It's likely not a coincidence that the above number stopped in 2016 and over the last 10 years has begun reversing given that 2016 is also roughly the time Donald Trump arrived on the political scene. Earlier this year, Trump along with EPA chief Lee Zeldin terminated the “endangerment finding,” a 2009 declaration by the Obama administration that has been the basis for intense regulation on U.S. industries in pursuit of fighting climate change -- until 2026 when Trump ended it. Trump hailed the rollback as “the single largest deregulatory action in American history” and said the move would “save American consumers trillions of dollars” going forward.

The Trump EPA also began phasing out the "universally-hated" auto start-stop feature on cars, which was another inconvenient result -- for both consumers and manufacturers -- of the climate hysteria that overwhelmed Washington in the first quarter of the 21st century.

Trump has enabled part of a larger movement not only in the U.S., but around the world. The reality is that climate hysteria and alarmism is on a downward trend in 2026 globally, too. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, didn’t even mention it once in her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this year. She's made climate dogma a mainstay of her Davos speeches in previous years.

As Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus and visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, pointed out, climate change isn’t even close to being a priority for voters around the world. “Voters have become sick and tired of constant climate alarmism,” he wrote in an op-ed earlier this year.

Below, watch Enten demonstrate just how sick and tired of it Americans are.