As The Weather Changes, So Do Beliefs About Climate Change
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 07:40
in Earth & Climate
By: Karin Heineman, Inside Science(Inside Science TV) – Who can forget the winter of 2013-2014? Record-breaking cold temperatures and heavy snowfall hit from the Rocky Mountains all the way to the East Coast.Although the majority of Americans still believe that global warming is happening, the especially blustery winter caused some people to question whether global warming is really happening.“Almost invariably we find that after any winter a drop off in belief in the existence of global warming," said Barry Rabe, a political scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. read more