Only half of Americans believe humans cause climate change
Pick a scientist at random, and she'll almost always say climate change is real and influenced by humans.
Pew Research found 87 percent of scientists in the American Association for the Advancement of Science will say so. By contrast, only half of U.S. adults surveyed believe the same thing. The rest believe, in almost equal measure, either that climate change is real but natural, or that there is no solid evidence to support the existence of climate change.
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