Life, liberty … and the pursuit of global warming?

The United States now has one of the highest rates of climate change denial in the world, according to a new global survey.

The YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project, which surveyed the 23 largest countries in the world, found that 13 percent of Americans believe that the climate is changing — but humans are not to blame. Five percent of people do not think the climate is changing at all.

The US ranks third in the world with our anti-science beliefs, researchers found, topped only by Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, which had 18 and 16 percent nonbelievers in human-caused global warming, respectively.

Contrary to their beliefs, humans are one of the main causes of global warming, something scientists say is very much threatening the planet. According to a United Nations report released this week, 1 million species of plants and animals are facing extinction because of humans. Earlier this month, the UN climate chief reported a looming “catastrophe,” saying that we have 12 years to curb carbon emissions until we reach “a point of no return.”

Break out the tinfoil hats: Americans are also very keen on believing in climate change-related conspiracy theories. A whopping 17 percent of people, almost one in five, think “the idea of man-made global warming is a hoax that was invented to deceive people.”

Political swing plays a strong role in denying that the planet is on fire, the survey finds. More than half of the people who described themselves as “very right-wing” do not believe in climate change. This isn’t a total surprise, considering President Donald Trump has publicly tweeted that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.