Posted on 10/22/2009 3:34:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming. Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, down 20 points in just three years, a new poll says. And the share of people who believe pollution caused by humans is causing temperatures to rise has also taken a dip, even as the U.S. and world forums gear up for possible action against climate change.
In a poll of 1,500 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, released Thursday, the number of people saying there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has gotten warmer over the past few decades is down from 71 percent in April of last year and from 77 percent when Pew started asking the question in 2006. The number of people who see the situation as a serious problem also has declined.
The steepest drop has occurred during the past year, as Congress and the Obama administration have taken steps to control heat-trapping emissions for the first time and international negotiations for a new treaty to slow global warming have been under way. At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world's oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer.
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This just confirms there remain an inordinately hugh number of ignorant, gullible and dishonest people that can be hustled with ease..
ping.
Global warming. It’s the new Y2K.
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband attends the launch of the Science Museum's new exhibition 'Prove It!' on climate change in London. Miliband unveiled an interactive map Thursday demonstrating the impact of global warming in decades to come, to underline the looming threat. (AFP/Shaun Curry)
It means there are fewer stupid and gullible people on this globe....
A polar bear sits on the ice in Manitoba, Canada. The United States and Britain insisted Monday they had not given up on securing a deal to tackle climate change at a crunch summit in December after a meeting of major polluting countries in London. (AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)
Whatever happened to FR’s chief AGW proponent?
I forgot his name.
Did he melt?
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks at the Major Economies Forum in central London October 19, 2009. World leaders must intervene to rescue flagging climate talks by brokering in person a deal to combat global warming in Copenhagen in December, Brown said on Monday. REUTERS/Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool (BRITAIN POLITICS ENERGY ENVIRONMENT HEADSHOT)
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed signs the decree of the underwater cabinet meeting off Girifushi Island on October 17. Nasheed is emerging as the global stuntman in the battle against climate change. (AFP/HO)
If carbon dioxide is the problem, shouldn’t he be chained to the desk?
That’s just silly!
All the enviro-nazis recognized the earth was cooling years ago!
That’s why the phrase was changed from “global warming” to “global climate change”.
That way they can explain away all the early and late season snow storms and blizzards.
As for the recent lack of hurricanes, they just ignore that fact and pretend it doesn’t exist!
This level of national ignorance was brought to you courtesy of a corrupt educational system and unionized self-styled "educators".
Just another impartial report from the oh-so-dependable AP. No need to ask for supporting evidence. Everybody knows the debate is over.
TB I just might considering it’s getting cooler now.
I’ll never get ocean front property if the seas don’t rise 40’!
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