tend to be much more likely to think that climate change will have a great deal of impact than those in the West

This is not what I said though, I said deniers. Of course, the Spaniards and wealthy countries will think less impact, because they are wealthy with a wealthy government in relatively mild climates. Impoverished, corrupt-to-the-point-of-a-joke government-led countries built in the middle of the tropics are going to suffer - it's completely out of their control.

In terms of denial, I just looked it up and I was pretty dead-on; according to a YouGov-Cambridge collaboration, the US is considered a 'hotbed' of denial at a high of 13% who believe climate change is real but not anthropogenic, and a whopping 5% deny it altogether.

I think it goes both ways

Maybe, but we certainly don't see that at all. Doom and gloom get a lot more clicks, after all.

Case and point - We get an overall feeling that the world is full of climate deniers, that the world will end in 8 years, that Donald Trump has killed millions with his decisions and is an actual Nazi, that the Amazon has almost entirely burnt down thanks to a cackling, evil dictator (the leaked messages say nothing about it from him, and, according to the NYTimes: 'Much of the land that is burning was not old-growth rain forest, but land that had already been cleared of trees and set for agricultural use' - and the rate of deforestation is significantly lower than in the past and hardly skyrocketing), and so on.

Your post's point is still entirely valid in all of these cases, however, I genuinely believe an honest depiction from reporters on what's going on is easily sufficient to get us on our feet and taking action. By overstating the truth, we enable the skeptics to deny, dismiss and ridicule with some level of legitimacy - this is my biggest qualm