Poll: 53 Percent Of Americans Don’t Believe In Man-Made Global Warming

Daily Mail ^ | 6/28/14 | Michael Bastasch

[Impala64ssa]

President Obama is emphasizing global warming ahead of the November elections, but a new poll suggests he faces an uphill climb.

According to a Pew Research Center poll, 35 percent of Americans say there is not enough solid evidence to suggest mankind is warming the earth while another 18 percent says the world has warmed due to “natural patterns” and not human activity.

That’s a 53 percent majority against the president’s position.

Of the 35 percent who cite lacking evidence for their disbelief, half say it’s because man-made global warming is “just not happening”. The other half say that we “don’t know enough yet” about the issue to tell. Pew says that “business conservatives” and “steadfast conservatives” have the largest majorities that don’t believe in man-made global warming, with 75 percent and 71 percent, respectively.

Forty percent of Americans believe that mankind is causing the planet to warm. So-called “solid liberals” are the most likely to say human activity is warming the Earth — 78 percent of this group believes this to be true.

But younger cohorts of voters also seem to be more worried about global warming, according to Pew. Even among the group called “young outsiders,” belief in man-made global warming is high, as 37 percent of this cohort believes mankind is responsible for heating the planet.

Pew describes “young outsiders” as “a right leaning group” that diverges “from the conservative groups in their social liberalism, while holding deeply conservative values about the role of government and the social safety net.”

[Impala64ssa]

When scientists or those in academia who receive tons of $$$ from federal grants or "non-profit" eco organizations say man-made global warming is real, that's as meaningful as Bill Gates issuing a strong buy recommendation on Microsoft.

[wetphoenix]

There are still 47% total idiots and that is a problem.

[jtal]

Exactly - that was my thought exactly - why is the number so low?

Maybe this 47% corresponds to the 47% who are dependent on the government and just accepts whatever the plantation boss says.

[r0tten]

Maybe most Americans are smarter than we give them credit for. They’ve seen the false prophecies. They’ve endured the brutally cold winter.

[afsnco]

If there is ANY man-made global warming it’s so miniscule that it’s negligible. In reality if there’s global warming it’s SUN-made global warming.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

That was my first thought too — who are the 47% who believe this BS. Low information types who get all they need to know from the nightly MSM newscast and their local paper, I suspect.

[Cicero]

What is the percentage who believe that Global Warming is yet another left-wing scam designed to increase government control and deprive citizens of their rights and property? With plenty of pork to the LIBERAL crony capitalists? And a constant flow of money into liberal academia?

The fact that global warming is not scientific is the least of it.

[Steely Tom]

Incident solar radiation to Earth: 340 watts per square meter.

[Sacajaweau]

So ask people a question and they'll guess at the answers you have provided. Most likely you'll come up close to 50-50.

Of course the first reality is.....Is it really warming or just doing its usual cycling?

[Impala64ssa]

In reality if there’s global warming it’s SUN-made global warming.
I say it's G-D made global warming/climate change.

[nhwingut]

And to think the billions and trillions invested in propaganda. And they still can’t convince a majority.

[afsnco]

Agreed. And someday soon, with prophecy being fulfilled left and right, God will wreak such devastation on this planet that they’ll wish for the nothing that’s happening now. Eventually He’ll destroy this planet completely. But I’m sure all the carbon credits will completely thwart His will. /sarc