Public Opinion on Climate Change

Here’s a piece of research from Yale University that corroborates my gut instinct: Americans are increasingly aware of and concerned about climate change.

But here’s something a bit scary that also rings true to me: Americans’ opinions on many matters (including climate change) are vastly divergent from the scientists whose life work is studying those subjects.  This has always befuddled me; apparently, we feel qualified to fabricate our own viewpoints on important matters; we don’t have a problem with simply inventing stuff.  Perhaps it’s a take-off on “Yankee ingenuity.”