Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”

Americans generally believe global warming is real. That sets the U.S. public apart from the global-warming skeptics who assembled this week in New York City to try to debunk the science behind climate change. At the same time, with only 34% of Americans saying they worry "a great deal" about the problem, most Americans do not view the issue in the same dire terms as the many prominent leaders advancing global warming as an issue. Full Story »

Posted by Peter L. Combs
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Subjects: World, Sci/Tech
Topics: Environment, Global Warming, Pollution, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Peter L. Combs - Mar 15, 2009 - 6:30 PM PDT
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Edited by: Peter L. Combs - Mar 15, 2009 - 6:30 PM PDT

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 17, 2009

The poll has some value in the degree to which it reflects public opinion. It has misleading aspects in emphasizing the numbers of the naysayers. There is the aspect of "If lots of other people believe as I do, then it must be right." This it is a poll of ignorance rather than being informative of the science and the beliefs of informed experts in a scientific field. A missing topic of information is where do the naysayers get their information. Given the disproportionate number of Republican naysayers, it suggests their news source is the notorious major nutworks such as Faux news. The blind leading the blind.

I am not a naysayer, no I am not.

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Peter L. Combs
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by Peter L. Combs - Mar. 15, 2009

A rather in depth look changing attitudes and feelings about the Global Warming controversy. Good stats, Charts and perspective on the topic. Exactly why these slight changes have happened us not determined.

Not suprisingly my own natural skepticism about wild end of the world claims by some adherants to the Global Warming Theory...I enjoyed it..

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