As presidential hopefuls eye the 2016 election and strategize about how to win over the increasingly important Latino vote, they may want to heed the revelation of a New York Times poll released this week regarding climate change.

According to the poll, conducted by the New York Times, Stanford University and Resources for the Future, 54 percent of Hispanics say global warming is very or extremely important with an additional 25 percent saying the issue is at least somewhat important to them. This is compared to the 37 percent of white respondents who said global warming is very or extremely important, and the 26 percent who said it was somewhat important to them.

Hispanics also were more likely than whites to feel that climate change will negatively affect them in their lifetime. 40 percent of Latinos said it would impact them significantly, 27 percent said they expect a moderate impact and 17 percent said it would impact them a little. 17 percent of Hispanics polled said climate change would have no impact on them whatsoever.

For non-Hispanic whites, 27 percent said climate change would impact them significantly, 21 percent said they expect a moderate impact and 17 percent said it would impact them just a little. 32 percent of whites said climate change would have no impact on their lives.

The poll of 1,006 adults from across the nation was taken from Jan. 7-22 using landline and cell phones. The margin of error for non-Hispanic whites is 4 percent and 12 percent for Hispanic adults.

Check out the full poll here and the in-depth New York Times analysis here.