Generation X ambivalent about climate change, study shows (Panic!)

annarbor.com ^ | 7-21-2012 | Amy Biolchini

[Darren McCarty]

A new study by a University of Michigan professor shows Americans between the ages of 32 and 52 - a group referred to as Generation X - have said they don’t really care when it comes to matters of climate change and the environment.

Jon D. Miller directs the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the U-M Institute for Social Research and released a quarterly report this week. The research has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1986.

Generation X, which consists of people born between the years of the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, apparently cares much less about climate change issues than researchers anticipated.

When polled on issues like use of fossil fuels, the state of global warming and alternative energy sources, Generation X-ers responded with middle-of-the-road answers that showed they neither strongly agreed nor strongly disagreed.

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“These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century,” Miller wrote in the report.

[Darren McCarty]

Most of us know BS when we see it.

[Jeff Vader]

that’s because we remember being scared about the 2nd ice age in the mid 70s

[nascarnation]

When people tell me the current hot dry summer is related to climate change, I tell the to learn a bit about the 1930s dust bowl years.

[HelloooClareece]

We’re still wondering what happened to acid rain.

[Darren McCarty]

Or 1988.

[Shady]

We, for the most part, aren’t morons.

[Proud2BeRight]

People of that age are concerned with keeping or finding a job not some hoax.

[cripplecreek]

A lot of Gen-Xers were still getting some critical thinking skills at home and in school. They recognize qualifiers in statements as well as pieces of evidence that don't fit and shouldn't be there.

[ReaganGeneration2]

hence my screen name

[Windcatcher]

And thankfully we were too young to get suckered into the Marxist-driven flower power garbage.

[Pollster1]

A new study by a University of Michigan professor shows Americans between the ages of 32 and 52 - a group referred to as Generation X . . . Generation X, which consists of people born between the years of the mid-1960s to the early 1980s . . .

The scientists and journalists who agitate in favor of Global Warming "science" might be more believable if they could do basic arithmetic. Age 32 would be born in 1979/1980, which only by a stretch qualifies as "the early 1980s", but those age 52 would be born in 1959/1960, which does not qualify as "the mid-1960s". I remember when real scientists considered math a basic tool of the trade and would be embarrassed by such an absurd error - and would verbally beat down a faker who couldn't do math.

[DTogo]

“These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century,” Miller wrote in the report.

So you either have to strongly agree or disagree on "climate change" to have a healthy democracy... WTF??

[Windcatcher]

They’re afraid thst if we’re not buying the Socialism-driven global warming BS we might not buy the Socialism-driven Obama BS in November.

[umgud]

So not everyone is whipped into the frenzy they’ve promoted?

[ClearCase_guy]

Well done. Beat me to it.

[GenXteacher]

Well, Generation X is supposed to be cynical....

[KC_Lion]

I always hear about the drought of '88 because that is when I was born.

Mother told me that the 24th of June was the Hottest day that year and 10 days later when I was brought home the drought broke and it Rained, Rained, and Rained some more.

[98ZJ USMC]

The scientists and journalists who agitate in favor of Global Warming "science" might be more believable if they could do basic arithmetic. Age 32 would be born in 1979/1980, which only by a stretch qualifies as "the early 1980s", but those age 52 would be born in 1959/1960, which does not qualify as "the mid-1960s". I remember when real scientists considered math a basic tool of the trade and would be embarrassed by such an absurd error - and would verbally beat down a faker who couldn't do math. ------------- ..and these are the tools that completely understand a ridiculously complex subject like Global Climate. Uh-huh.....

[98ZJ USMC]

“These results are not comforting to those of us who worry about the health of American democracy in the 21st century,”

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Au contraire, mon dork. I find them particularly encouraging. Unless, of course Democracy equals retarded sheep.

[cripplecreek]

I always tell people that I can prove that mice can breathe under water for many days if they would kindly overlook how many fish I include in the sample.