Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust - New Report from Yale University

Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., Director, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, released another paper that examines the impact of Climategate on public perceptions of climate change and climate scientists.

Here are the major findings:

• Climategate had a significant negative effect on public beliefs in global warming and trust in scientists
• The loss of trust in scientists, however, appears to have been primarily among people with a strongly individualistic worldview or politically conservative ideology

Fortunately, they found that Americans, overall, continued to trust scientists more than any other source of information about global warming.

The report can be downloaded from the the Social Science Research Network or from Yale University.

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