Looking for Climate Change Believers? Start in US Jon Bowermaster - TakePart
go to original May 13, 2013

A home destroyed during the landfall of Superstorm Sandy is pictured in Mantoloking, New Jersey on March 22, 2013. The Jersey shore, a 127-mile stretch of beaches, small communities and kitschy icons, remains largely in shambles. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Furious wildfires in California, massive droughts across the Plains states, and flooding in the Midwest. All are happening right now, earlier and more dangerously than any time in recent history.

A pair of brand new reports from Yale University show that the ways Americans perceive these threats varies, especially regarding both the causes and severity.

In Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication concludes that for a first time a clear majority of Americans - 6 out of 10 - believe that “global warming is affecting weather in the United States.”

Clearly this runs counter to the climate change deniers who strongly suggest that a warming planet is just nature taking its course, without any influence from man.

The investigation delves deeper into the American psyche regarding the new frequency of superstorms and just how different or bad weather in their neighborhood has become in recent years.

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