Here’s the good news: About three out of four Americans believe in global warming. Here’s the bad news, that’s down from four out of five just a few years ago. That’s according to a new environmental poll sponsored by the Washington Post.

The demographic breakouts here are the standard ones for environmental issues:

• Democrats are more likely to accept global warming as real than Republicans, and are more supportive of policy action to address it
• Young people are more likely to accept global warming as real than older people
• College educated people (1/4 of Americans have a college degree) are more likely to accept global warming as real than those with less education (3/4 of Americans have junior college, high school, or even less education)

You know a simple way to raise levels of attention and concern about climate change? Call it global warming instead.

Click the links below for more:

• Environmental poll results
• Environmental poll story