Gallup: Skepticism About Global Warming Grows

Gallup: Skepticism About Global Warming Grows

By Adam O'Neal

 

Americans are deeply divided over the cause and seriousness of global warming, according to a new Gallup survey. While opinions about the urgency of climate change have fluctuated throughout the past 15 years, the number of Americans who have serious doubts has more than doubled since 2001.

Roughly one-quarter of Americans are not worried about global warming “much or at all”; 36 percent have mixed feelings; and 39 percent “attribute global warming to human actions and are worried about it.” (According to Gallup, the “groupings stem from a special ‘cluster’ analysis of four questions that measure Americans' belief and concerns about human-induced global warming.”)

Women are significantly more likely than men to be concerned about global warming. Sixty percent of “concerned believers” are women, and two-thirds of skeptics are men.
The divide in belief varies even more wildly along partisan lines: Republicans (or those who lean Republican) make up 80 percent of skeptics, while Democrats (or those who lean Democratic) constitute more than 76 percent of believers.
“As with many issues in the past decade, Americans' views have grown more polarized,” concluded Gallup’s Lydia Saad.
The nationwide survey of 1,048 adults was conducted March 6-9 and has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.

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