Global warming beliefs and attitudes

Recent polling in the US, where climate change scepticism is in vogue by political conservatives, shows an upward trend in the number of people who agree that human activity is causing climate change.

From the publication: Americans’ Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in November 2011:

• Public understanding that global warming is happening remained essentially unchanged at 63 percent, while belief that it is caused mostly by human activities increased three points since May 2011, to 50 percent.
• A majority of Americans (57%) now disagree with the statement, “With the economy in such bad shape, the US can’t afford to reduce global warming” – an 8 point increase in disagreement since May 2011.
• 65 percent said that global warming is affecting weather in the United States.
• Majorities said that global warming made the record high temperatures in the US, the drought in Texas and Oklahoma, the Mississippi River floods, the record snowfalls in the US, and Hurricane Irene worse.

See this page from Climate Change Communication.