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Fewer Americans believe in #global #warming, poll shows http://tinyurl.com/ycd6xry 11/26/2009 |
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RT @sarahelabance: RT @KatrinaNation: And on eve of Copenhagen. Depressing. http://bit.ly/4uifmv #Cop15 #climate #p2 11/25/2009 |
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Via @kate_sheppard: 28% don't think globe warming http://bit.ly/7vkPPu - same 28% who think Palin is qualified to be prez? #climate 11/25/2009 |
Video: Hey, who’s up for a screaming match over global warming?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... By popular request, a “festive” exchange from this afternoon’s Cavuto in honor of WaPo’s new poll showing growing skepticism about the topic du jour. Growing, that is, but still mild: Fully 72 percent believe in global warming (down from 80 percent last year), including 71 percent of independents. Even a majority of Republicans believe in it, although that percentage has dipped from 76 percent all the way down to 54. Imagine what the numbers would look like if television news hadn’t ...
Early Word: Afghan Rollout
The Caucus —
... to a Disney-owned ranch. Later in the day, the First Family is scheduled to participate in a service event in Washington. For his part, Mr. Singh is scheduled to hold a morning press conference a stone’s throw from the White House. Climate Chasm: The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 72 percent of respondents believe that global warming is occurring — a drop of eight percentage points over the last year. According to The Post’s Juliet Eilperin, the findings suggest “ an increasing political polarization around the issue, just as the Obama administration and ...
Competing versions of reality
Political Animal —
COMPETING VERSIONS OF REALITY.... The good news is, most Americans acknowledge the reality of climate change; accept that it's a serious problem; and support efforts, such as cap and trade, to address the crisis. The bad news is, like practically everything else of late, it's become a partisan issue in which the American mainstream has one set of beliefs, and Republicans have an entirely different reality. The percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dipped from 80 to 72 percent in the past year, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, ...
ThinkFast: November 25, 2009
Think Progress —
... “The percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dipped from 80 to 72 percent in the past year,” but “a majority still support a national cap on greenhouse gas emissions.” The increase in climate skepticism “is driven largely by a shift within the GOP.” ...
Global Warming Skepticism Up, Not Winning
The New Republic blogs —
... A new Washington Post poll shows that the proportion of Americans who believe global warming is occurring has dipped by one tenth in the past year (from 80 percent to 72 percent). Leave aside the fact that most of this shift might be explained by the margin of error. Isn't it still remarkable that a majority of Republicans still believe warming is occurring? Several years ago that fact alone would have been cause for a headline. ...
"GOPers Are Surprisingly Out of Step" on Global Warming
Fired Up! Missouri —
The Plum Line's Greg Sargent looks at some of the data from the new Washington Post-ABC News poll about global warming.
They show that only a bare majority of Republicans believe in global warming, and that GOPers are surprisingly out of step with the rest of the electorate (independents included) on the issue. The crosstabs reveal:
Only 54% of Republicans believe “the world’s temperature may have been going up slowly over the past 100 years,” versus 43% who don’t believe it. By contrast, 71% of independents say it’s been happening — almost exactly the same at the 72% overall ...
President Obama Will Attend Global Climate Talks in Copenhagen
Blue Virginia —
... . It's mindboggling and infuriating, a massive and well-funded propaganda campaign to distort and deny the voluminous science behind anthropogenic global warming. And, unfortunately, it's having some affect on public opinion, although as ...
ThinkFast: November 25, 2009
The Hollywood Liberal —
ThinkFast: November 25, 2009 The latest USA Today/Gallup poll has found that public confidence in President Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan has plummeted. The poll finds that 55% disapprove of the way he is handling Afghanistan, and only 35% approve, a sharp reversal from his 56% approval rating four months ago. The USA Today/Gallup poll also finds 42% […] Obama The latest USA Today/Gallup poll has found that public confidence in President Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan has plummeted. The poll finds that 55% disapprove of the way he is handling Afghanistan, and only 35% approve , a sharp reversal from his 56% approval rating four months ago. The ...
Jesse 'The Body' Ventura Hands His Bullhorn to Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White The Body does not like what the hands are doing. Let me just start by saying I genuinely like Jesse Ventura. Of course, I was a bit embarrassed when my fellow Minnesotans elected the former wrestler to the governor's office. I worried that Ventura was only elected thanks to his campaign ads using action figures ...
The Wages Of Denialism
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
by Patrick Appel Will at Ordinary Gentleman makes a solid point on behalf of cap and trade opponents: Straightforward denialism allows those who favor aggressive emissions
controls to shape the public’s perception of climate science. Instead
of sober cost-benefit analysis, people who basically accept the
existence of global warming (read: most of the voting public)
are now more likely to think that climate change is catastrophic rather
than incremental. The longer the right’s response to anthropogenic
warming is dominated by the likes of Inhofe and Santorum, the longer
this perception will linger, which doesn’t bode well for ...
