President Obama calls climate change "the global threat of our time." Americans don't quite agree with that assessment.

In a Pew poll released Monday, only 40 percent of Americans said global climate change was a "major threat." That placed it behind financial instability, Islamic extremism, and China's influence — and just above "political instability in Pakistan" (37 percent) — on a list of other potential threats Pew tested.

While Americans didn't think too much of global warming, the world as a whole did. Among the 39 countries Pew surveyed combined, climate change was viewed as the number one threat.

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