A new poll out of the University of Maryland by Global Public Opinion suggests that Americans place a lower priority on addressing the climate change crisis than 18 other nations polled.  The question was, "How high of a priority should the government place on global warming?" with answers from 1 to 10, 10 being the highest priority.  The poll sampled 18,578 people in the 19 countries.   Americans said 4.71.  Chinese said 8.86.  Mexicans said 9.09.  And so it went.  Even in India, which has recently refused to commit to lower pollution rates, 7.52 percent said they wanted their country to address the issue.  Russians said 7.39.  Americans places the priority at the lowest of all the nations polled.

The Guardian has an article up detailing the poll results, which also asked two other questions, "How high a priority does the government place on addressing climate change?", which Americans answered with 3.84 percent, and "What is your guess on how high a priority the average person in country thinks the government should place on addressing climate change?" which Americans answered with 3.71%, by far the lowest amongst the 19 nations.

Seems like people in almost all other countries are far more concerned about global warming.  In all but three nations most people think their government should give climate change a relatively high priority. However in only four nations do most people think that is what their government is doing.