Overall, all participants indicated high levels of concern (> 3.9). In comparison, all participants, both experts (M= 4.8, SD= 0.425) and non-experts (M= 4.3, SD= 0.986) were significantly more concerned about climate change than the current COVID-19 pandemic (M= 4.27, p < 0.001, SD= 1.42). This was evaluated by mean value comparison using the paired samples t-test. For this purpose, all valid responses on the level of concern of the non-experts from survey 1 and the experts were considered together (n=251), and the mean values between the two response options “Climate Change” (M= 4.3, SD= 1.108) and “COVID-19” (M= 3.9, SD= 0.064) were compared.