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Question: In general, do you think that a rise in the world's temperature caused by the 'greenhouse effect' is for the environment...
Choices: "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous" "somewhat dangerous" "not very dangerous" "not dangerous at all"
Data: % of "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany78.6%
2 Japan 72.9%
3 Canada59.1%
4 United Kingdom53.9%
5 United States48.0%
6 Sweden46.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.875457 X +8.021
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -53349.234734 X +84997.893
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.685
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.469

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 7.880322 X +76.590
Correlation coefficient (r)0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.637421 X +1.903
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.661
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.437

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.348701 X +13.823
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003