Posted on 04/05/2018 7:42:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gallup released its annual survey on American perceptions about global warming last week, and the results were a bit discouraging. While 85–90% of Democrats are worried about global warming, realize humans are causing it, and are aware that most scientists agree on this, independents and Republicans are a different story. Only 35% of Republicans and 62% of independents realize humans are causing global warming, a similar number are worried about it, and only 42% of Republicans and 65% of independents are aware of the scientific consensus.
The Trump administration’s polarizing stance on climate change is probably the main contributor to this decline in conservative acceptance of climate change realities. A recent study found evidence that “Americans may have formed their attitudes [on climate change] by using party elite cues” delivered via the media. In particular, the study found that Fox News “is consistently more partisan than other [news] outlets”.
The challenge is that politicians on Fox News and other media outlets are able to reach a wide audience with their polarizing messages about climate change. Reaching a similarly sized audience not only with facts but also inoculation against the misinformation is a daunting task.
While Americans badly underestimate the expert consensus – just 13% are aware there’s over 90% expert agreement, and the average American thinks the consensus is just 67% – despite growing polarization, few believe that most scientists reject global warming.
Most Americans are simply unaware about and thus underestimate the expert climate consensus. While a number of people can’t be convinced by the facts due to their polarized views, many more in that undecided, uninformed group remain open-minded and reachable.
We could solve the problem if conservative politicians and media outlets would simply stop spreading misinformation about and polarizing the subject of climate change.
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97% of the 75 surveys selected from a response of 7000 returned forms.
Not cherry-picking at all, noooo.
“American Conservatives Still Refuse to Accept Global Warming BS”
So only Republicans and independents have heard of the Bandwagon fallacy?
Notice how they just flippantly throw out “90% expert agreement” and just move on.
Dana, you are the one who doesn’t realize how the percentage was determined.
Those media outlets are what are saving us from your idiocy.
It is not that I don’t “realize” humans are causing global warming.
I do realize that “climate scientists” are a bunch of dirt-bag grant whores who lie to get money—and the media “reporters” are terrified to report anything outside of the Overton Window.
“....85–90% of Democrats are worried about global warming, realize humans are causing it, and are aware that most scientists agree on this,....” So, just because they have managed to pull the wool over the eyes of dems, we should capitulate and cave in? Nah.
While 85–90% of Democrats are worried about global warming, realize humans are causing it, and are aware that most scientists agree on this, independents and Republicans are a different story.
Mars is warming. Jupiter is warming. The moons of Saturn are warming. Pluto is warming.
We need to take this seriously! The entire solar system is at stake here!!
Proud to be a conservative, a skeptic, a deplorable and an irredeemable.
1. What cause the earth to warm, and ice to retreat which ended previous ice ages?
2. Why isn’t that mentioned, ever? And how the present warming differs from that?
All mankind combined is a mere speck of dust, a grain of sand, compared to the sun and the universe. That we control "global warming" is the height of arrogance and the result of feeble men who believe they are godlike.
Let’s start by noting that 97% of the ‘experts’ in this so-called consensus are no such thing.
Tell ya what Yurps.... why don’t you show us the way? Cut your carbon emissions radically. You say this will pay for itself. OK! Take the plunge and show us the way. This is your big chance to get ahead! We’ll sit back and watch like you overwhelmingly do when it comes to the defense spending you agreed to do to uphold your Nati obligations but which you’ve reneged on.
Your move.
Group think is a lazy intelligential approach to solving the problem if one exists that can be solved. The group think keep ignoring the energy elephant in the room, the sun. Until they discuss the sun and its effect on global temperatures, then their fake solutions don’t exist.
There is no such concept in science as “scientific consensus.”
Anyone who uses the term invalidates their thesis.
That 97% are the same ones that said Pluto was a planet for 100 years.
Republicans and independents use a myriad of sources for information, like this list: https://www.google.com/search?q=97%25+consensus+debunked
Democrats go to CNN.
With the “greening” of first world industry, how is it possible that our climate is in worse shape, than it was during the industrial revolution?
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