Three Universities Survey Attitudes About Climate Change

A survey by three universities of the attitudes about climate change shows that older Americans and younger Americans have a broad, general interest in the topic, but those under the age of 35 were "significantly less likely than their elders to say that they had thought about global warming before today," the Washington Post's Post Carbon blog reported today.

The research by American, Yale and George Mason universities found that 51 percent of those aged 35-59 had developed concerns about climate change, as well as 44 percent of those older than 60. Youths, on the other hand, showed a previous interest only 38 percent. According to the researchers: "The issue of global warming is not considered of any greater personal importance to under-35s than it is to those 35 and older. Seventeen percent of adults under 35 say that the issue of global warming is either extremely or very important to them, a proportion that is statistically equivalent to the 20 percent of those 35-59 and 22 percent of those 60 and older who say this."