Americans trust their "own observations" on climate change against scientists and meteorologists: poll

Seventy-nine percent of Americans say they trust their own observations on climate change, compared to 78 percent for scientists and less than half in the US government.

A majority of Americans, 56%, say humans should tackle climate change with concrete action "right now," according to a CBS News poll released Sunday. A two-thirds majority of Americans say they believe that humans can do something about climate change, but nearly one in five Americans surveyed says climate change "has not not at all need to be addressed ".

Although 64% of Americans believe that climate change is a "serious / serious problem", people are much more divided about the causes of change and the information they receive.

Less than a third of Americans polled, 29%, said they believe that human activity and pollution are one of the causes of climate change. According to NASA, the average global temperature has risen 0.8 degrees Celsius and 18 of the world's 19 warmest years have occurred since 2001.

Regarding information and statistics on climate change, 79% of Americans said they trust their "own observations" a lot or at least somewhat, compared to 78% who said the same thing about scientists and scientific research on climate change. About 67 percent of Americans said they trust local meteorologists to get reliable data on the subject, while about half or less than half of Americans trust major media or US government agencies.

The poll shows that 57% of Americans think that the United Nations is honest about climate change. A recent US report on global warming warned that if the average global temperature increased by 2 degrees Celsius, sea levels could rise dramatically and almost every coral reef in the world would die. The UN has warned that water stress is worsening as a result of the combination of population growth and climate change.

More than a quarter of Americans surveyed worry about the negative effects of climate change, but not yet. About 26% said climate change should be treated either "in the coming years" or "in the future".

According to the CBS News poll, 13 US federal agencies released a 2018 report that a warmer planet would significantly reduce the country's GDP. Federal government agencies have predicted that if measures to reverse climate change are not implemented immediately, the size of the US economy could be reduced by 10% by the end of the century.

US lawmakers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Congress in New York, have introduced a highly controversial bill, such as the Green New Deal, to reduce the effects of climate change and rework the entire world. American economy to solve the problem.

"What is not realistic, is not to react to the crisis – not to provide a solution to the extent of the crisis," Ocasio-Cortez said at a forum of the NAACP last Wednesday. "Because what's unrealistic is that Miami will not exist in a few years, it's not realistic, so we have to be realistic about the problem."

But Americans are widely scattered about what they see as the causes of climate change and its negative effects. About 39% of Americans polled in the CBS News poll said they thought "human and natural patterns" were the root causes. About 29% of Americans said that they thought that human activity was at the root of climate change, while about 10% of them said that change climate change "does not happen".