What Do People In Iran Think About Global Warming? [Infographic]
More Iranians than Americans worry about climate change. When the U.S. economy began to plunge in 2008, so did Americans' belief in climate change--opinion polls showed that the percentage of Americans who thought the climate was changing dropped 14 points, from 71 to 57, between 2008 and 2009. That number has been climbing again--it reached 70 percent this past September--but the number of Americans who say they are worried about climate change is still seven points lower than it was in 2008 (63% of Americans were "very" or "somewhat" worried about climate change in 2008, compared with 58% in 2012). It's also significantly lower than in Iran, where 80% of the population is worried about global warming, according to today's infographic. The data here are based on a small sample size, so we can't be sure they perfectly represent Iranians' views on climate change--and I'm frankly confused about how it's possible...