<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-content__header gmail-tonal__header" style="color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><div class="gmail-u-cf"><h1 class="gmail-content__headline" style="margin:0px;font-size:2.125rem;line-height:2.375rem;font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400;padding:0.1875rem 0px 2.25rem">US is hotbed of climate change denial, major global survey finds</h1></div></div><div class="gmail-tonal__standfirst gmail-u-cf" style="color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><div class="gmail-content__standfirst" style="line-height:1.25rem;font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:0.75rem;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;max-width:33.75rem;margin-left:0px"><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><strong>Exclusive</strong>: Out of 23 big countries, only Saudi Arabia and Indonesia had higher proportion of doubters</p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><br></p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/us-hotbed-climate-change-denial-international-poll">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/us-hotbed-climate-change-denial-international-poll</a> </p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"> <br></p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem">Oliver Milman and Fiona Harvey</p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem">May 8, 2019</p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><br></p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">The US is a hotbed of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/scienceofclimatechange" class="gmail-u-underline" style="background:transparent;color:rgb(171,6,19);border-bottom:0.0625rem solid rgb(220,220,220);text-decoration-line:none">climate science</a> denial when compared with other countries, with international polling finding a significant number of Americans do not believe human-driven climate change is occurring.</p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">A total of 13% of Americans polled in a 23-country survey conducted by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/01/populism-what-is-yougov-cambridge-globalism-project-methodology" class="gmail-u-underline" style="background:transparent;color:rgb(171,6,19);border-bottom:0.0625rem solid rgb(220,220,220);text-decoration-line:none">YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project</a> agreed with the statement that the climate is changing “but human activity is not responsible at all”. A further 5% said the climate was not changing.</p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">Only Saudi Arabia (16%) and Indonesia (18%) had a higher proportion of people doubtful of manmade climate change.</p><p style="font-size:1.0625rem;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">------------------------------------</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p></div></div></div>