typical wrote:
I'd love to see a poll taken. How many climate change deniers and supporters have a degree in the sciences (i.e., biology, chemistry, environmental science, earth & atmostpheric science, etc.)?
My guess is that anyone who has taken, at the very least, an intro biology course in the past decade realizes the mountain of evidence for climate change and the mole hill of evidence against it. Also, since climate change has become a political issue thanks to lobbyist groups like the Koch brothers, I'd predict a reasonably-defined party-line split between supporters and deniers. It's really ridiculous, because political ideology is useless when put up against scientific inquiry. Science is fact; politics is opinion.
A quick search yielded this poll which isn't all that current and doesn't differentiate between technical and non-technical degreed college graduates. One of the more interesting results is that (not surprisingly) there's a strong split along political lines but (surprisingly, to me at least) is that the polarization is stronger with higher education levels.
http://www.people-press.org/2007/01/24/global-warming-a-divide-on-causes-and-solutions/