Posted on 09/06/2019 12:18:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nearly three-quarters of Americans see weather disasters, like Hurricane Dorian, worsening and most of them blame global warming to some extent, a new poll finds.
And scientists say they’re right.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey shows 72 percent of Americans think catastrophic weather is more severe, while 4 percent see it as less nasty. About one-quarter say those disasters are about as extreme as they always were.
Half of those who think weather disasters are worsening say it’s mainly because of man-made climate change, with another 37 percent who think natural randomness and global warming are equally to blame.
The poll was conducted in mid-August before Dorian formed, pummeled the Bahamas and put much of the US East Coast on edge.
“We continue to loot our environment and it causes adverse weather,” said John Mohr, a 57-year-old self-described moderate Republican in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was bracing for Dorian’s arrival
“This is climate change, though President Trump denies that it is,” Tony Pagan, a 69-year-old retired electrician said as he and his wife finished packing to leave Wednesday. “He needs to open his eyes.”
Though she’s weary of dealing with storms three of the past four years, Sandy Cason of Tybee Island said she’s not ready to blame climate change. She noted Georgia got hit by several powerful hurricanes in the 1800s.
“If you go back and read, it’s a cyclical thing. It really is,” Cason said. “If you read enough about the old storms, I don’t think you can” attribute the most recent storms to climate change.
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That’s a big increase in population then. Three times as many reps!!
Somewhere in deep space, aliens are laughing their heads (if they have any) off, at the news that here on earth, people think they can get better weather by paying more tax.
“I will outbid you all for control of that planet,” said one with a keen business sense.
Most Americans believe the media.
Most Americans are duped. Maybe then I should be too...to fit in?
“The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey shows 72 percent of Americans think catastrophic weather is more severe...”
Anything from the Nazis at AP is fake news.
Well played sir!
They keep telling me that the current weather is so much worse than earlier weather...but I have a filter for their crap-—I lived through the earlier stuff and some of it seemed worse than what we have today and the rest is about the same....
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