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Washingtonians are way more freaked out by climate change than people in any state, according to data that was published by a research team at Yale and Utah State University.

Nationally, just 63 percent of people think that climate change is happening, compared to 81 percent of Washingtonians. And while 52 percent of the country is worried about global warming, 71 percent of people in D.C. are worried.

New York (63 percent), drought-stricken California (62 percent), and the islands of Hawaii (66 percent) join the District in being concerned about that whole rising temperatures business, while West Virginia (42 percent), Wyoming (41 percent), and North Dakota (43 percent) aren’t terribly bothered.

But the other lesson here is one that local reporters have been pointing out for years: comparing the District, an entirely urban area, to states isn’t all that meaningful.

Unlike most other lists, though, the study’s authors broke the data down into both counties and congressional districts.

Once you drill down into those figures, D.C. is still ahead of the curve, but not nearly as out there as the “state”-level figures indicate.

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While 74 percent of Washingtonians are worried about global warming, so are 73 percent of people in New York County (aka Manhattan) and 71 percent of Alameda County (home to Oakland and San Francisco).

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Meanwhile, the counties surrounding D.C. had more variance: an estimated 64 percent of people in Montgomery County, 60 percent in Prince George’s County, 65 percent in Arlington County, and 49 percent in Fairfax County are concerned about global warming.