Politics and Its Hold on Public Perceptions of Climate Change

From The Mulch, a Media Consortium weblog on environmental news, an interesting Sarah Laskow piece on how changing perceptions about climate change are related to politics.
Laskow writes: Americans don’t know what to think about climate change anymore. A few years ago, the public more or less trusted the science that said human activity was raising global temperatures, but now that Congress and the Obama administration have hemmed and hawed about climate issues, we’re no longer so sure. Forty-eight percent of Americans — more of us than ever before — believe that reports of global warming are “generally exaggerated,” according to a new Gallup poll. Climate science hasn’t changed, so it’s not crazy to look at these numbers and think that conservatives’ incessant critiques of climate change may be working.
Read the entire piece here.