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WSJ.com: Washington Wire: Americans Cool on Evidence of Global Warming
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Weekly Standard Blog: Consensus: Global Warming Is Not Man-Made
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Reading "Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming" (Pew). Worrying. http://tinyurl.com/ylzgc4g #Copenhagen 3 days ago |
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Who'll be around for it? RT @NobleFreshEnerg: 1/2 <30s think climate=most serious prob; 1/4 >65s do; http://bit.ly/1ieYWd (via @AlexSteffen) 3 days ago |
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Interesting. RT @NobleFreshEnerg: Pew poll: 1/2 of <30s think climate=most serious problem; only 1/4 >65s do; http://bit.ly/1ieYWd 3 days ago |
Americans Cool on Evidence of Global Warming
WSJ.com: Washington Wire —
... A poll out today on Americans attitudes about climate change contains sobering findings for those that favor aggressive action to curb U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases. ...
Meredith Jessup: Poor Al Gore: Americans Not Convinced by Doomsday Global Warming Rhetoric
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
New survey results out today from Pew Research are bad news for President Obama and other global warming activists hoping to impose a cap-and-trade policy to control carbon emissions. According to the survey , there has been a "sharp decline" over the last year in Americans who subscribe to the theory of global warming: The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been ...
Consensus: Global Warming Is Not Man-Made
Weekly Standard Blog —
And by consensus, I mean a consensus among the American people:
There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that 57% think there is solid evidence ...
Epistemology With James Inhofe
Matthew Yglesias —
... Pew reports that the right is having a great deal of success in trying to mislead people about climate change. The header Pew put on the graphic notes that the decline is “across party lines.” But you should look at the magnitudes—the Republican line has fallen way further, and from a lower base, than the Democratic line. This is probably a ...
Link Farm
Megan McArdle —
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Williams Attributes Drop in Warming Credence to 'People Less Sensitive to Environment'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... the past three years, over 70 percent of Americans have told pollsters from the Pew Research organization they believe there's solid evidence of global warming. This year, however, that number has dropped off significantly. Now just 57 percent say they believe it. The number of people who say they don't believe in climate change at all has doubled in that time. One theory offered today: in a down economy, people are less sensitive to the environment.
The Pew poll, “Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming,” determined: ...
Americans Won’t Believe In Global Warming Until They’re Actually Melting
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... In just three short years, Americans have gotten 20 points dumber. That’s if you count a belief in the climate crisis, and the mounting science behind it, as a sign of brains. If you count brains by waistline, then we’re ...
Annals of climate science: The crying wolf problem
TigerHawk —
... (ouch). The result of these failures and others is that Americans are less willing to believe the predictions of disaster. Most curiously, the declining belief in disastrous anthropogenic global warming has come during the first year of the first American president who has openly and aggressively argued that we face disaster if we do not take immediate and dramatic steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. So, are Americans less willing to believe in AGW in spite of Barack Obama's call for action, or because of it? 0 Comments: ...
Poll Finds Americans More Confused About Climate
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... This is, uh, a bit of a concern: A Pew poll released on Thursday finds the number of Americans concerned about climate change has declined—and the number of global warming skeptics has increased. ...
Stephanopoulos Fears 'False Comfort' of an Actual Climate Change Solution
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... On the Oct. 23 "Good Morning America," ABC's George Stephanopoulos was troubled. The source of his disquiet was a new Pew Research poll released on Oct. 22 that shows "just 57 percent of Americans see solid evidence" of global warming. [Emphasis ours.] This represents a 14 percent drop since last year. Additionally, the number of those who believe climate change is caused by human activity fell 11 percent. To the media's true believers - and those who just like reporting a good scare story - these numbers are upsetting. ...
Global warming, still a tough sell to a skeptical public despite overwhelming evidence
The Reaction —
... By Michael J.W. Stickings Pew: "Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming." Of course, most Americans -- and most of us generally -- think far more about the weather than we do about the climate. And ...
Mother Jones to Lead Lefty Reporting Effort on Global Warming
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... A new Pew Research poll has much of the left and the mainstream media in a bit of a panic. And at least several media outlets are about to try something new to address it. ...
Weekend Opinionator: Are Americans Cooling on Global Warming?
Opinionator —
... us from creating millions of new jobs. There are going to be those who cynically claim — make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, claims whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.” What about them? “We are seeing a convergence. The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized.” Hmmm, for people being marginalized by a consensus, there suddenly seem to be a whole lot of them, at least according to the Pew Research Center for ...
Number of Americans who believe in climate change drops, survey shows
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
Source: The Guardian US Only 57% of Americans feel that the planet's atmosphere is warming, a fall from 77% two years ago Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 October 2009 19.22 BST The number of Americans who believe in global warming has plummeted, falling 20% in two years, a survey said today. Only 57% of Americans believe there is solid scientific evidence that the Earth's atmosphere is warming, said the poll of 1,500 people by the Pew Research Centre for the People & the Press. That is a fall of 77% from 2007. The number of ...
Christian Coaltion Pushes For Climate Change Legislation
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "We don't agree with environmental groups on everything, but if we can find things that we agree on this will be a better bill ... I'm real proud of Sen. Graham. He's a man of lost of wisdom." ...
Poll: Americans more skeptical of anthropogenic global warming
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , small wonder Pew Research finds rising skepticism for the hypothesis that man causes global warming. Only slightly over a third of Americans believe that any warming to be found should be blamed on humans, the product of ten years of declining temperatures despite increases in CO2 emissions: There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008. The latest national ...
The United States of Denial
Attytood —
... the conversation at places like the Thanksgiving dinner table, and they can influence the millions of folks mostly watching "American Idol" instead of American politics. Case in point: Global warming. These conservative voices have been out on a limb these last few years, disputing what most of the world's top scientists report, which is that manmade pollution from greenhouse gases is warming the planet, with serious likely consequences. Are folks getting the conservative message? You bet . There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who ...
Disturbing Trends in What Americans Believe about Climate Change
Sustainablog —
... for the People & the Press released results of a major survey tracking what people believe about “Global Warming.” It is not encouraging! Across age, gender, race, political affiliation, and religion there have been declines in the number of people who believe that human activity is involved and increases in the number of people who don’t think it is happening. My own demographic (white, male, 54 years old, political Independent, Evangelical Christian) is among the most skeptical, though the Baby Boom slightly ...
Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: 350 ppm
Daily Kos —
... All that talk, here and at those other blogs, and all those actions are more important now than ever. Because American opinion, according to the latest survey by the highly respected Pew Center for the People & the Press, indicates that Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming: ...
Obamateurism of the Day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... he blamed for peddling “cynical” claims that global warming is a myth to derail a landmark climate change bill in Congress. Obama warned that the closer the Senate came to passing legislation which has already cleared the House of Representatives, the more opponents would resort to underhand tactics.“The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized,” Obama warned in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The same day, Pew Research released its findings on ...
Scrap the Cap -- By: The Editors
Articles on National Review Online —
... So cap-and-trade is not likely to work in the real world, and it will not be easy to make it work politically, either: A new Pew study has found that the percentage of Americans who see solid evidence for man-made warming has fallen dramatically. Average global temperatures have actually fallen this decade even though CO2 emissions have continued to rise. This by itself does not prove anything -- cap-and-trade supporters argue that this is nothing more than a temporary downswing in the middle of an upward trend. But the same models that predicted catastrophic ...
Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They're Suckers
Commondreams.org Views —
A survey last month by the Pew Research Centre suggests that the proportion of Americans who believe there is solid evidence that the world has been warming over the last few decades has fallen from 71% to 57% in just 18 months. Another survey, ...
Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
Commondreams.org Views —
... in April of 2008 to 56 percent in October - an astonishing drop in just 18 months. The belief that global warming is human-caused declined from 47 percent to 36 percent. While some pollsters questioned these numbers, the Pew statistics are consistent with the findings by Gallup in March that public concern about global warming had declined, that the number of Americans who believed that news about global warming was exaggerated had increased, and that the number of Americans who believed that the effects of global warming had already begun had declined. The reasons offered ...
'Green News Report' - November 19, 2009
The BRAD BLOG —
... Even as the climate science becomes more definitive, polls show that public concern in the United States about global warming has been declining. What will it take to rally Americans behind the need to take strong action on cutting carbon emissions?
Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming: Modest Support for "Cap and Trade" Policy (Pew Research Center)
Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh: ‘Are we warming or are we cooling?’ (Think Progress)
Palin’s book spreads falsehoods about clean energy ...
