Majority Of Americans Recognize Climate Change Is Occurring

21 Jun

Returning to the most recent results from the UT Energy Poll, nearly two-thirds of respondents acknowledge that global climate change is occurring.

When the same question is broken down by party affiliation, the notorious partisan divide emerges.

Do you think climate change is or is not occurring?

Tomorrow we’ll take a closer look at what Democrats and Republicans who say global climate change is occurring attribute it to.

This contribution to “Your Dot” at NYTimes was originally posted as part of a slideshow on June 19, 2012.

3 Responses to “Majority Of Americans Recognize Climate Change Is Occurring”

  1. Brent Kelly June 21, 2012 at 11:53 am #

    Steps in the right direction, perhaps.

    Something to note, however: America is a continent, not a country. Not to be a nitpicker, but I’m only mentioning it because other Americans (i.e. Canadians, Mexicans, folks from Brazin, Chile, etc) get confused when US citizens refer to themselves as Americans – as if their country were a continent.

    As such, I’d recommend replacing ‘Americans’ in the title with ‘US Citizens’ so as to not give readers the impression that all the inhabitants of America were polled.

    • Sheril Kirshenbaum June 21, 2012 at 12:05 pm #

      I do understand where you’re coming from on this. However, I expect most people associate Americans in this context with the U.S. After all, my publisher titled my first book Unscientific America.

  2. Palmira Daggett March 17, 2013 at 12:45 am #

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