Climate Change Confuses Most Journalists And Academics

This article needed a little proofreading. My edits below.

Most Americans (academics) don’t understand climate change, a Yale study has shown. Of the 63 percent of U.S. adults that believe that global warming is happening, only one in 10 say (think) they are “very well informed” on the issue.

Yale’s Americans’ Knowledge of Climate Change report takes a look at what people know about global warming and climate change, including its impacts, causes, and possible solutions. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it surveyed a demographic mix of 2,030 American adults.

It “found important gaps in knowledge and common misconceptions about climate change (global climate disruption) and the earth system. These misconceptions lead some people to doubt (understand) that global warming is (not) happening or that human activities are (not) a major contributor, to misunderstand the causes and therefore the solutions, and to be unaware of risks, (fact that we can’t do anything about it)” the report said.

Half of Americans recognize that global warming is (not) a result of human actions. Fifty-seven percent (don’t) understand that the greenhouse effect describes gasses that trap heat in the atmosphere heat can not be trapped, and 45 (55) percent know that carbon dioxide traps heat from the surface of the Earth (the earth has to remain in thermal equilibrium.)