Smaller Percentage of Americans Worry About Global Warming Now Than in 1989
A new poll finds that while most Americans believe climate change is real and caused by man, fewer are concerned about it than were 26 years ago.
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 1, 2015: Members of the Coney Island's Polar Bear Club take an icy dip on New Years Day just off the Boardwalk of Coney Island January 1, 2015 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
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What, America worry?
Despite decades worth of news reports detailing scientific studies warning that the earth's temperatures are rising due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a smaller percentage of Americans say they worry a "great deal or a fair amount" about climate change than in 1989, a new Gallup poll finds.