If you thought views on abortion broke down neatly across a political axis or caused family arguments, check out what Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, has to say about climate change and public perception:
When it comes to science, there’s more than climate that divides America’s leaders and people. The mainstream scientific establishment accepts evolution as a reality, as well as the general safety of vaccinations and genetically modified food. But some political leaders and portions of the public don’t believe any of that. It’s not a liberal versus conservative issue, especially when it comes to vaccinations, which are doubted by some activists on both ends of the political spectrum. But nothing beats climate change for divisiveness.
The good news in that article is that the fastest growing group is the one that sees climate change as an imminent threat that has to be addressed. The bad news is they only make up about 17 percent. The really bad news is there’s a smaller, know-nothing group led by—you guessed it—tea party republicans and the like who vociferously object to even seriously discussing the issue, and they are dug in like ticks in a sleeping bear. And while the latter group may be small and dwindling in total numbers and proportion, they count among them some of the most powerful individual and corporate interests the world has ever known.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2bKkmvB
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