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Ok, let's add numbers! At some recent point 77% of Americans believed angels are real. That doesn't sway me as it's not evidence (of that, it is of the gullibi

• jfengel 4y ago
  That's what the piece is about: what people believe. The question of whether climate change is real is a separate question, and one that's considered definitively solved by everybody who actually knows anything about it. The fact that many people don't accept it is a different problem, and that's what TFA is about. The article you cite is similar data: lots of people are dumb. In the case of climate change, more people accept the right answer even though many don't follow the correct reasoning. The number who do accept reality isn't sufficient to achieve serious progress against climate change. Knowing how many don't, and how that number changes, is useful if we're ever going to fix it. So the popular polls have no effect on the question of whether climate change is real, caused by humans, and serious. Both the theory and the evidence are overwhelming. But knowing that is only the beginning, not the end, of the difficulties.