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These Maps Show Why Keep Electing Climate Change Deniers

2015-04-09 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: One of the most significant obstacles to addressing climate change is the fact that huge numbers of US politicians reject the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are warming the planet. Why does the situation persist? How can a senator who (literally) holds up a snowball as evidence that global warming is a hoax keep winning reelection? How can someone who declares himself a climate "skeptic" be a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination? As newly released research from the Yale...

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What Americans Think About Climate Change in Seven Maps

2015-04-06 19:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Researchers at Yale have unveiled a new interactive map that estimates public opinion on global warming right down to the county level. As a nation, 63 percent of Americans believe that the globe is warming. (Note: It is.) But that single statistic reveals little about what people in different states, local communities, and congressional districts think. The research, which was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, makes estimates for those geographies and asks: Whether people...

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