Study: No consensus on climate change

Americans fall into six groups when it comes to climate change, from the alarmed to the dismissive. That's the conclusion of a study from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. "When we talk about 'the American public' and its views on global warming, that's a misnomer," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale F&ES Project on Climate Change and a co-author of the report. "There is no single American voice on this issue." Leiserowitz and his colleagues found in their survey of more than 2,000 adults in the fall that Americans are in six distinct groups when it comes to climate change: The alarmed (18 percent); the concerned (33 percent); the cautious (19 percent); the disengaged (12 percent); the doubtful (11 percent); and the dismissive (7 percent). Those numbers are about in line with a recent Gallup poll that found about a third of Americans worry a "great deal" about global warming...AP