Enlarge / That melting ice? It’s just a figment of the scientists’ imagination. (credit: NASA)
Last week, amid all the attention devoted to presidential polls, a couple of different polls came out examining how one of the issues in the presidential campaign is perceived by the voters. Climate change has come up in both presidential debates so far, and the positions of the candidates on this issue are radically different (stay tuned to Ars for more on that). But as the polls reveal, these differences reflect fundamental differences between the members of the two parties.
In a small bit of good news, however, there is a group of people who self-identify as concerned about the climate. But even within this group, there’s a partisan divide.
Don’t trust those scientists
One of the new polls comes from the Pew Research Center, which surveyed more than 1,500 US adults (the survey has a margin of error of 4 percent). In addition to answering questions about their view on climate science and policy, the participants were asked about their political affiliations, which were divided into four categories based on strong or moderate affiliation with one of the two major parties.
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Politics still rule in the US public’s acceptance of climate science
