Science education and scientific literacy are correlated with skepticism of climate alarmism
Drummond & Fischhoff (2017), PNAS, Sept 5, 2017,
The data source was the U.S. nationally representative General Social Survey.
See also: Gallup poll finding that, overall, education level is inversely correlated with worry about climate change. (Among both Republicans and unaffiliated respondents, that the more education people have the more likely they are to think the climate scare is exaggerated, but that is not the case among Democrats.)