Only one-third of Americans think limiting climate change is a very important goal

Only one-third of respondents listed climate change as a “very important” goal, down two percentage points from 2010. Worse, climate change was third-to-last, after “strengthening the United Nations.” A February poll suggested that 61 percent of Americans think the U.N. is doing a “poor job,” if that gives you any indication of the esteem in which it is held.

When the polling is broken down by political party, the results aren’t much better.