Residents in California are much more worried about the warming planet than those in parts of the central United States, according to a new set of interactive maps showing public opinion on climate change.
As a nation, 63 percent of Americans think the planet is warming and 48 percent of Americans think these changes are caused by humans. But "Americans don't speak with a single voice on the issue," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and co-author of the new paper published online April 6 in the journal Nature Climate Change. "In fact, there's a tremendous diversity across the country about it."
Leiserowitz and his colleagues from Yale and Utah State University estimated what people in different states, local communities and congressional districts think, in order to tease out smaller trends. The researchers also created the interactive map based on their new data. "I use this analogy loosely, but it's like getting a microscope for the first time," Leiserowitz told Live Science. "Suddenly, you can see this whole world below the surface that you just couldn't see before." [6 Unexpected Effects of Climate Change]
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