A survey conducted from September 30th to October 4th shows that currently 65 percent of the US public believe that climate change is a serious problem. This is apparently a drop in the percentage from 2007 when 77 percent of the US public considered climate change a problem. Whether this is a result of people being ignorant to important issues or is just a matter of statistics I dont know, but what I do know is that from personal experience I think climate change is a serious issue.
When I was younger I can remember waking up on christmas morning and there would be snow on the ground, but these past few years christmas hasn't been white but instead rainy and muddy. I've also noticed that in the past few years there has been many more rainy days. A few years ago we had so much rain one week that all of the streams and rivers in my hometown were flooded. One of the bridges near my house was washed away, some people who lived by the river had major damage done to their homes and in some places on the roads, the ground underneath had so much water that when you stepped on it, the water would gush up through cracks in the pavement. Every summer since this happened, three years ago, we've had a problem with flooding, the last two years weren't as severe but it's still enough to convince me how much of a threat climate change really is.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6300
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