Friday, March 8, 2013

Increasing number of Americans believe climate change is real

Mongabay: An increasing number of Americans believe there is evidence for climate change, reveals a new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan. According to the poll, two-thirds of Americans - including 51 percent of Republicans - think global warming is occurring. 42 percent believe that Earth is warming primarily as a consequence of human activities, while 37 percent attribute rising temperatures to a combination of natural patterns and human activity. Only 19 percent ascribe recent...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0308-climate-change-poll.html
Enclosure: http://closup.umich.edu/files/nsee-climate-belief-fall-2012.pdf

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