Washington: An in Zogby interactive survey, the results showed that nearly half of Americans, or 49%, say they are only slightly or not at all concerned about climate change, while 35% are somewhat or highly concerned.

The survey’s results emerge as the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen heads into its final week, amid warnings that global warming could eventually melt the polar ice caps, raising sea levels and causing drought and other severe weather conditions.

Al Gore, a former US vice president, pitch for saving the planet from global warming appears to be falling on increasingly deaf ears.

Stephen Harned, executive director for the National Weather Association, and a 36-year veteran of the National Weather Service. “Well, I think people respond to what is going on around them. In the
last couple of years, especially in the Eastern part of the United
States, weather patterns have been quite normal.”