--- title: Earth Day Poll: One in Four 'Solidly Skeptical' of Global Warming description: A new Gallup poll that coincides with Earth Day finds the number of Americans with mixed opinions about global warming has declined from 49 percent in 2001 to 36 percent today, but many have joined the ranks of the skeptics canonical: https://time.com/71697/poll-global-warming-climate-change-earth-day/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-22T13:20:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:25:40.078Z article:section: Politics og:title: Earth Day Poll: One in Four 'Solidly Skeptical' of Global Warming og:description: A new Gallup poll that coincides with Earth Day finds the number of Americans with mixed opinions about global warming has declined from 49 percent in 2001 to 36 percent today, but many have joined the ranks of the skeptics og:url: https://time.com/71697/poll-global-warming-climate-change-earth-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc03f15f3826ba2/69868bd313c79f5ee9191bab/climate-warming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: A polar bear scans the surrounding area for seals from the top of a large piece of glacial ice in Liefdefjorden, Svalbard in 2011. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Earth Day Poll: One in Four 'Solidly Skeptical' of Global Warming twitter:description: A new Gallup poll that coincides with Earth Day finds the number of Americans with mixed opinions about global warming has declined from 49 percent in 2001 to 36 percent today, but many have joined the ranks of the skeptics twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fc03f15f3826ba2/69868bd313c79f5ee9191bab/climate-warming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: One in Four 'Solidly Skeptical' of Global Warming > Sponsored content. 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Rebecca Jackrel—Barcroft Media/Getty Images  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Apr 22, 2014 1:20 PM UTC Americans are becoming more [divided](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168620/one-four-solidly-skeptical-global-warming.aspx?utm%5Fsource=alert&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=syndication&utm%5Fcontent=morelink&utm%5Fterm=Politics) in their opinion on impact of global warming and humanity’s role in the phenomenon, as the number of global warming skeptics has roughly doubled over the past 10 years to encompass one in four of the population. The portion of Americans with mixed opinions about global warming has declined from 49 percent in 2001 to 36 percent today, according to a Gallup poll released on Earth Day Tuesday. Over the same period the number of people who are concerned about global warming and see mankind as its cause has held fairly steady at 39 percent, while the number of people who say they’re “solidly skeptical” of global warming has rocketed from 12 percent in 2001 to 25 percent today. Women are significantly more likely than men to be concerned about the impact of global warming and humanity’s role in causing it. The age group 30 to 49 is most likely to be concerned about the phenomenon, while younger people aged 18 to 29 are less divided on the issue, least likely to be skeptical and most likely to have mixed views on the matter. Education is not a good predictor of whether or not a person is concerned about global warming, with about 30% having some college and 30% no college in both groups. 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