President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations on Tuesday about climate change and said, “…there’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.” …
The fascinating and important aspect of this summit and the associated speeches — from my perspective as a public opinion scientist — is the overwhelming degree to which the American public appears not to consider climate change an urgent threat or problem or priority. In many ways over the last decade, the higher the volume about climate change is turned up, the less concerned the American public appears to get. CONT.
Frank Newport, Gallup