Germany and Britain have seen episodes of flooding and extreme heat, but the Mediterranean Basin -- a climate change "hotspot" according to the UN's IPCC climate science advisory body -- has been hammered by heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, all of which are predicted to worsen.
Two to three times as many respondents in each country said that climate change will cause "a large amount" of harm to the world in the future, compared to whether they personally will experience harm.
That possibly reflects the extent to which people in rich countries are insulated from severe impacts.
When respondents were asked whether they had already personally experienced weather events caused by climate change, 48 to 58 percent in Spain, Italy and France said they had, compared to 44, 38 and 36 percent in Britain, the United States and Germany, respectively.
The United States was in several ways an outlier in the survey, which polled between 1,000 and 2,000 people in each country.
Despite a crescendo of extreme weather measurably linked to warming in the United States -- including intense drought in the southwest, record wildfires in the northwest, flooding and drought in the midwest, and devastating hurricanes on the eastern seaboard -- barely half of Americans think that human activity has caused Earth's climate to change.
That figure rises to an average of nearly 80 percent across the European nations, and to 84 and 88 percent, respectively, in Spain and Italy.
Views in the United States on this question were evenly divided across age, gender and self-identified race, but skewed heavily according to political affiliation.
More than 80 percent of those voting for President Joe Biden in 2020 said global warming is manmade, versus only a quarter of those who voted for Donald Trump, who this week announced he would take another run at the White House in 2024.
Across the board, people said political leaders were not doing enough to fix the climate, the survey showed.
"There is a shared lack of confidence in their national government's ability to grip this crisis," Tryl said.
