You might be surprised how many adults there are across the Nation "who think global warming is happening?"
(63%)
Even the State with the lowest score to that Question (WV), had a Majority of 54% -- who think so.
So why doesn't Congress do something about it?
Perhaps they need to read the Yale Poll ... and get their Local dirt ...
Yale Climate Opinion Maps
We are pleased to announce a new interactive mapping tool called “Yale Climate Opinion Maps” (YCOM) and an accompanying peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature Climate Change. This tool allows users to visualize and explore differences in public opinion about global warming in the United States in unprecedented geographic detail, as the map of public worry about global warming below illustrates. As you can see, 52% of Americans are worried about global warming. But this national number glosses over the enormous geographic diversity in public opinion across the country -- diversity that is revealed for the first time in these maps.
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More eye-opening data, over the fold ...
Explore the interactive map from Yale: Here.
Estimated % of adults who think global warming is happening, 2014
How does your State rate?
I heard about this today, on NPR's Science Friday.
That SciFri link has the PodCast of today's show.
Pass it on ...