Claim: The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Newsweek reports that the majority of Europe and Japan accept the consensus on scientific climate change, but only one third of Americans considered human activity to play a major role in climate change in 2006; 64% believed that scientists disagreed about it "a lot."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The number of these climate skeptics is greater in the US than in any other country.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Today, climate change skepticism is most prominently seen in the United States, where the media disproportionately features views of the climate change denial community.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The United States has historically been the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases and greenhouse gas emissions per capita remain high.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, has said that "climate change is a hoax invented by and for Chinese."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Antilla 2005: "One problematic trend of the US media has been the suggestion that substantive disagreement exists within the international scientific community as to the reality of anthropogenic climate change; however, this concept is false…Although the science of climate change does not appear to be a prime news topic for most of the 255 newspapers included in this study…articles that framed climate change in terms of debate, controversy, or uncertainty were plentiful."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: By this measure, the U.K. is still the largest single cause of climate change, followed by the U.S. and Germany, even though its current emissions are surpassed by the People's Republic of China.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: On June 1, 2017, United States President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would cease all participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Climate change is globally believed and scientifically proven to have incurred from the economic activities of developed and developing nations and regions such as China, the United States, and Europe.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, in a 19 June 2017 interview with CNBC, acknowledged the existence of climate change and impact from humans, but said that he did not agree with the idea that carbon dioxide was the primary driver of global warming pointing instead to "the ocean waters and this environment that we live in".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: majority support   plurality support   majority oppose   plurality oppose On June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.