THE MISTAKE-CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT RED OR BLUE

How climate change became so politicized

Brian Mastroianni, December 3, 2015 (CNBC)

“During a news conference at the COP21 climate conference in Paris…President Obama had some words for the Republicans hoping to win his job: ‘Everyone else is taking climate change really seriously…They think it's a really big problem. It spans political parties.’ …[I]n the United States, everything about climate change is politically divisive. There appears to be little common ground…The trend over the past decade has been for liberals and conservatives to push further to their respective sides…[A study of 10 national Gallup polls between 2001 and 2010 show] liberals grew much more likely to report believing climate change has already begun, while conservatives became increasingly likely to say the opposite…The study also pointed out the role of the media in fueling this split…In the latest CBS News/New York Times poll…almost three-quarters of Democrats (72 percent) and half of independents (52 percent) said they believe global warming is caused by human activity, but less than a third of Republicans (32 percent) agreed…[but it] found that the number of Americans who believe global warming is caused by human activity has risen 11 points since 2011…” click here for more

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