Anthony Leiserowitz is director of the Yale project on climate change.
In a recent study “Global Warming Six Americas” he found that the public’s
perception of climate change falls into six distinct categories
Who
are the different publics within the American public? The American public does
not speak with a single voice on this issue. There are in fact six really
distinct Americas within America. Those groups each respond to this issue in
very different ways for very different reasons.