There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Fear of global warming cools down
Bad news for the Warmers, care of the Pew Research Center:
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If the majority of people thought BBQ pork rinds and Mtn. Dew were health foods, would that offset the views of epidemiologists, diabetes, and cardiac health experts? Do you know of a poll of climatologists on this issue?
ReplyDeleteI suppose that if I were arguing that the level of public agreement with global warming advocates were a measure of the strength of their theory, it would be a good point.
ReplyDeleteSo then Martin, how about spending some time over the turkey shoot going on over Levitt and Dubner's SuperFreakonomics? Unfortunately for them, a few scientists, got to read their Chapter 5 on the mitigation of AGW. Let's say that every assertion, every solution offered therein has been debunked. Levitt/Dubner's consultant, Nathan Mhyrvold who till last week touted himself as a polymath's polyath, has gone incognito! Climate science isn't simply a matter of argument and rhetoric. It isn't even something to be discussed over the web. It is Science - which means it takes years of study, research, and review to master the principles and talk about. Just as any other scholarly discipline.
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