A new Yale University study says eastern Utah’s Emery County is one of just three counties in the nation where less than half of all adults believe that global warming is happening.
And that is out of 3,142 counties, all of which are part of the new study by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Joining Emery with less than half of adults believing in climate change are Heard County, Ga., and Grant County, W. Va.
Residents in this coal-producing county in Utah say it’s not that they don’t believe in climate change. Many just don’t agree with prevailing theories on what is causing it.