To Americans, the Risks of Global Warming Are Not Imminent

Gallup by Lydia Saad | Mar. 12, 2007 (Poll - Limited online access)
A majority worries about climate changes, but thinks problems are a decade or more away

One has to wonder why Americans don't demand more political action on global warming when surveys routinely find them saying they believe it is happening and are generally worried about it. Full Story »

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Mike LaBonte
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 by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 1, 2008

Not the best I've seen from Gallup. I think this survey conflates the severity of effects from a certain amount of warming with the probability that that much warming will occur, by not asking questions to separate the two. It does bring in the time dimension, which is valuable. The context contains some claims without evidence, like "given the Bush administration's general downplaying of the problem".

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