Two patterns are clear. First, the more informed a person is about the climate, the more likely they are to agree with the scientific consensus that human activity is significantly warming the planet. 97% of climatologists, 87% of all scientists, 60% of college graduates and 56% of people without a college degree accept the consensus position.Second, the more conservative a group is, the less likely it is to be aligned with the scientific consensus. This tendency might be partially explained by the greater reliance on fossil fuels in more conservative states Notably, the Republican Senators are far to the right of even conservative Republicans on climate change. Only 4 Republican Senators are willing to publicly take the position that human activity is causing climate change, while almost half of moderate Republicans and more than a quarter of conservative Republicans take that position. This skew might be explained in part by the substantial political contributions that flow to Republican Senators who publicly reject climate science