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Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American

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Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American:
‘via Blog this’

I came upon this as I was building a WikiBook on Sustainability and Climate change.
Wikipedia has a great coverage of Climate Change and it includes this great article.
It is interesting how we Americans are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a low(er) carbon world. Much of the rest of the developed world has been working on lower emissions for more than a decade, since the Kyoto protocol.
But the psychology (sociology really) is interesting…
Painfully interesting:-(

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