The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offers some clues, citing “significant trends in precipitation and temperature” across the region. American opinion on climate change is highly partisanWe have long known Americans break heavily along party lines over the causes, solutions and very existence of man-made climate change. Lower levels of concern about climate change were found in Poland, Russia, India, Israel Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ghana, Nigeria and Venezuela. Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication at Yale University, said the ideological split in America underscores the divisions he has witnessed in his own studies of how Americans perceive climate change. But a similar survey Pew conducted in 2015 found 19 percent of Chinese people polled considered themselves “very concerned” about climate change.

Source: New York Times August 01, 2017 13:52 UTC