Study: Farmers and scientists divided over climate change

Crop producers and scientists hold deeply different views on climate change and its possible causes, a study by Purdue and Iowa State universities shows. Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011-2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both. More than 90 percent of the scientists and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with more than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human activities. In contrast, 66 percent of corn producers surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with 8 percent pinpointing human activities as the main cause. A quarter of producers said they believed climate change was caused mostly by natural shifts in the environment, and 31 percent said there was not enough evidence to determine whether climate change was happening or not. The survey results highlight the division between scientists and farmers over climate change and the challenges in communicating climate data and trends in non-polarizing ways, Prokopy said...more

There's a lot of mumbo-jumbo here about how to approach farmers with climate science, but as it turns out those farmers in Indiana & Iowa were closer to the truth than the scientists.  I wonder what the numbers would be today after all the disclosures of the scientific community becoming political whores for federal research dollars and turning tricks with their data.  On Climategate see, for example:

Climategate II: leaked emails show struggle to deal with warming lull  
The New Hockey Stick
Another Global Warming Advocate Caught Falsifying The Truth
Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate
The Climate Scam Continues 
Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague 
Medieval Warming Period Cools Climate Change Alarmism 
The CO2 Lie 

Look at the above study and you will find that it too was funded by the feds.