Table 3.

Climate change perceptions themes and sub-themes that emerged through the process of qualitative analysis. The most common 5–6 sub-themes are shown per theme

Climate change perceptions
Causes	Impacts	Risk and Awareness	Solutions and Politics
• Fossil fuels, emissions • Pollution • Urban sprawl, population growth • Manufactured problem • Responsibility for the problem	• Temperature changes • Weather changes and extremes • Health, human impacts • Ice, oceans, water • Pests, invasive species • Fire, drought	• Geographic risk • Temporal risk • Media coverage • Change is constant, natural • Skepticism or denial of the risk	• Adaptation • Individual, collective action • Disbelief or skepticism in solutions • Government and politics • Lack of scientific knowledge