New Gallup poll shows sharp partisan divide in understanding of climate change

Call this the “Ignorance Gap.”

The partisan divide on climate science has been growing for a while, as I discussed in a 2008 review of the Gallup polling.  No surprise, really, since the anti-science disinformation campaign uses “experts” that are more credible to conservatives, and that disinformation is repeated to death on conservative media outlets.

Now Gallup has updated its polling and just now released its own analysis, “Conservatives’ Doubts About Global Warming Grow,” with this fascinating ideological breakdown that shows how the divide has grown in the past 2 years: …

The disinformers are winning, but mostly with the GOP - New Gallup poll shows sharp partisan divide in understanding of climate change

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