Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/01/2009 12:23:36 PM PDT by presidio9
A majority of adults in Canada, the United States and Britain believe global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. At least 51 per cent of respondents in the three countries agree with this statement.
Conversely, 21 per cent of Britons, 19 per cent of Canadians and 17 per cent of Americans believe global warming is happening but is mostly caused by natural changes. Also, 20 per cent of respondents in the U.S., 16 per cent in Canada and 16 per cent in Britain believe global warming is a theory that has not yet been proven.
The term global warming refers to an increase of the Earth’s average temperature. Some theories say that climate change might be the result of human-generated carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In 2007, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which states that global warming has been "very likely"—or 90 per cent certain—caused by humans burning fossil fuels.
In 1998, several countries agreed to the Kyoto Protocol, a proposed amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The agreement commits nations to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The U.S. has not ratified the treaty, which is due to expire in 2012.
In October 2007, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and the IPCC were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
Last month, Jonathon Porritt—the outgoing chairman of the British government’s Sustainable Development Commission (SDC)—expressed dissatisfaction with the commitment of current British prime minister Gordon Brown to the fight against global warming, saying, "He’s got some incredibly fixed ideas. (...) Environment has never been Gordon Brown’s strong suit. Tony Blair fully understood the risk of climate change, and whatever you may think about him his commitment on that was completely genuine."
Which of the following statements comes closest to your view of global warming (or climate change)?
Global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities
CAN 56%
US 51%
UK 55%
Global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by natural changes
CAN 19%
US 17%
UK 21%
Global warming is a theory that has not yet been proven
CAN 16%
US 20%
UK 16%
Not sure
CAN 9%
US 12%
UK 8%
Good God, the disinformation worked!!
Where are the demographics for this bogus poll?? There is no way in hell that this can be true.
General Barnicke: Are you telling me that you men finished your training on your own?
John Winger: That’s a fact, Jack.
Soldiers: That’s a fact, Jack.
It has worked, but not as well as they might think.
51% believe man has caused global warming
17% believe in global warming, but think natural causes are to blame
20% don’t believe in global warming
37% probably isn’t that bad a number. I’d venture they polled people in a liberal enclave to come up with these numbers too
great example of an “outcome based” survey, LOL
Global Warming is a Fiction invented by Uninformed Fearmongers.
Global Warming is Fiction supported by Scientific Whores supported by Government Grants.
Global Warming is a Theory that is supported by Bogus Science.
Not sure.
This means the Propaganda has been successful.
Man also once believed the world to be flat and that the sun went round the earth.
it’s a poll on science competence.
and, these countries fail!
Conduct the poll next January.
“I’d venture they polled people in a liberal enclave to come up with these numbers too”
I believe that.
In fact, in both cases, it can more easily be related to this phenomena:
This just proves that the union degradation of schools has worked. People believe what they read or hear in the MSM. We just have to remember that the MSM targets their coverage to people with the average education of a thirteen year old.
WRONG! It's "A majority of adults who were polled and asked loaded questions."
So when a majority of the people in the world believed the earth was flat, did that make it a fact?
The Earth is flat. Except where it goes up and down hill.
It was believe that ulcers were caused by Type A personalities in the 1970's.
We know know that Helicobacter pylori is responsible for the majority of peptic ulcers.
But only after the #1 proponent injected himself with the bacteria and developed an ulcer.
I wonder if the pollsters asked what was the respondees main source of news.
No real opposing viewpoint has been offered except "not sure".
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