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69% of Americans believe climate change is real. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications

by sprafa 5y ago

69% of Americans believe climate change is real. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans... That's an overwhelming majority. The 'doubt' is media-created FUD being replicated to pretend to be an issue.

prophesi 5y ago
Conversely, 31% of Americans don't believe in climate change, which would be over 100 million people. That's pretty concerning. Though I also completely agree that the division is further exacerbated by the media.
- jhgb 5y ago
  Apparently more USAians believe in climate change than evolution. Not sure if it's reassuring or scary.
- lumost 5y ago
  20% of Americans believe almost anything under the sun (although it’s a different 20% for each issue). Demanding 100% belief in climate change to accomplish something is not the best strategy.
  - prophesi 5y ago
    That's fair, though you need people to understand the facts before you can even start the discussion. And it doesn't help that it's a partisan issue in the USA's broken two-party system, ensuring that the discussion gets nowhere.