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Quoted: Anthony Leiserowitz

Yale School of the Environment

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“The amount of people at each end of the spectrum—alarmed and dismissive—were essentially tied back in 2013, but today there are three alarmed people for every one dismissive, so there’s been a fundamental shift in how people see climate change in the US.”

—Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, talking about the program's public surveys in The Guardian, “Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress,” August 5.

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