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Survey Shows Gap Between Scientists and the Public

Danish glacier expert Andreas Peter Ahlstroem stands in front of the Ilulissat glacier, some 7/10 kilometers away on July 3, 2009. Greenland's Ilulissat glacier, which has become a symbol of climate change, lost 94 square kilometres (60 square miles) of surface area between 2001 and 2005 due to global warming, according to a US study published last year. According to a recent survey, almost all scientists believe that humans are behind climate change, while only about half of the public agree.(AFP/File/Slim Allagui)

When it comes to climate change, the teaching of evolution and the state of the nation's research enterprise, there is a large gap between what scientists think and the views of ordinary Americans, a new survey has found.

On the whole, scientists believe American research leads the world. But only 17 percent of the public agrees, and the proportion who name scientific advances as among the United States' most important achievements has fallen to 27 percent from nearly 50 percent in 1999, the survey found.