the geography of denial

The Pulitzer-Prize-winning website Inside Climate News has an excellent post on the geographic differences in the understanding of climate change, titled "U.S. is Laggard Among Developed Nations in Understanding Climate Change". The source is given as "a 2010 Gallup poll on climate beliefs in 111 countries" and the data "was part of a 2015 analysis by Cardiff University (UK) researchers examining climate attitudes since the 1980s". The analyst is Stuart Capstick at Cardiff's School of Psychology. He is the lead author of "International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century," an open access article in WIRE: Climate Change 6 (2015): 35-61. Inside Climate News cites a great graphic from this study: