UM: Climate Change

USA Today reports that more Americans believe in “climate change” than they do “global warming,” according to a recent University of Michigan study. The largest differences in perception were found in people who identified themselves as Republicans, with 44% believing in global warming and 60% believing climate change was real. Norbert Schwarz, one of the study’s authors, writes that the issue is not as partisan as previously thought: “When the issue is framed as global warming, the partisan divide is nearly 42 percentage points. But when the frame is climate change, the partisan divide drops to about 26 percentage points.” [Source]