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Global warming? No sweat.(IN BOX)
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Foreign Policy
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May 1, 2008
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Shortly after winning an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth in 2007, Al Gore told reporters backstage at Los Angeles's Kodak Theatre that he hoped the honor would convince more people to "see the movie and learn about the climate crisis." He may want to rethink his wish. According to a recent study by researchers from Texas A&M University on American attitudes toward global warming, the more people know about climate change, the less concerned they are about it.
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After interviewing more than 1,000 Americans on their environmental attitudes, researchers found that people who are more informed about the risks and causes of global warming are not only ...