Hi, Warman Only back with To the Point. In a moment, we're going to talk with Jane Koston of the New York Times about sports and how important they are to America's political culture. But first, what does the American public actually think about climate? Anthony Leisowitz has spent his career trying to answer that question, and he's come up with

some very surprising answers. He's a senior research scientist, a director of the Yale program on

climate change communication. Professor, good to have you on to the point. Thanks, Warren. It's great to be

with you. Now, we all know there is scientific consensus on all of this, but we hear daily reports

about disagreements in the Congress, and you would think that there was widespread public disagreement

about this issue. You found something very different from that. Yeah, so we've been studying the American

people for over a decade with nationally representative surveys.

And just in this past six months, we've seen a six-point increase in the proportion of Americans who believe that climate change is happening, from 70% last March to 76% just a month ago.

So we're seeing that public belief that climate change is real is on the move.

So tell us, who are those people in the 76 percent?

So what we know about the people who, what we call are dismissives, and note that that's a very

small proportion of the public, those people tend to be conservative Republicans, for example. They tend to be also conspiracy theorists.

They tell us quite directly that they think it's a hoax or that scientists are making up data or it's a UN plot to take away American sovereignty and other kind of narratives like that.

But again, they're a very small proportion of the public now.

Let's go into the details.

You have divided the public up into six different categories. Tell us what those categories are.

Of course. So we found long ago that Americans don't have a single viewpoint on climate change.

And then people too easily divide the country into believers and deniers.

But that's far too simplistic.

And what we've identified is what we call global warming six Americas, six different groups of the country that each respond to this issue very differently.

The first is a group we call the alarmed.

These are people who are fully convinced it's happening, it's human cause, it's serious,

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