Sunday, December 20, 2015

Climate Denial's Ugly Side: Hate Mail to Scientists

Click here to access article by Katherine Bagley and Naveena Sadasivam from Inside Climate News. 
While fervent public mistrust of established science is not unique to climate change ..., the level of cruelty of climate harassment is alarming, and is also largely a U.S. phenomenon.

A recent poll by the Pew Research Center shows that only 45 percent of Americans—compared to 54 percent of people worldwide (and nearly 100 percent of working U.S. climate scientists)—believe climate change is a serious problem. Among Republicans, that percentage falls to 20 percent.