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2025-12-31
Is Climate Change Seen to Be a Threat?
Public opinion is in relative agreement that climate change is a threat to us (68%), with a larger part (51%) considering it to be one of many dangers and a smaller part (17%) perceiving it as one of the greatest threats to our civilisation. On the other hand, every fifth respondent (21%) does not think climate change is a particularly dangerous phenomenon, though only a scant 5% from within this group do not associate it with danger at all. Climate denialism, the claim that there is no such thing as global heating, is a marginal position, held by only 3% of those surveyed.
Opinions have changed somewhat since the last survey, over four years ago, with a drop of 9 percentage points (from 26%) in those who see climate change as the greatest threat to humankind and a corresponding rise of 6 points (from 15%) in respondents who do not treat it as a major worry. It is notable that the current percentage of people who see climate change as a threat is the lowest since CBOS records began in 2009, with those who do not see it that way, or simply do not believe in it, at a record high.
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More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (427) was conducted using a mixed-mode procedure on a representative sample of named adult residents of Poland, randomly selected from the National Identity Number (PESEL) register. Respondents independently selected one of the following methods: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI); Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS; Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS. In all three cases the questionnaire had the same structure and comprised the same questions. The survey was carried out between 6 – 17 November 2025 inclusive on a sample of 992 people (60.1% using the CAPI method, 23% CATI and 16.9% CAWI). CBOS has been conducting statutory research using the above procedure since May 2020, stating in each case the percentage of personal, telephone and internet interviews.
