Thread: Fewer Americans are concerned about global warming, Pew Research Poll? - Yahoo! Answers

It's called the media and green movement. It's old news. It's hard to be concerned with global warming when your bills have gone up because the companies decided to go green (without asking you first), your grocery costs have nearly doubled thanks to the green movement, etc. Plus honestly I think people are starting to question the reports. It's frustrating when you hear about global warming and then know...

A similar poll in Canada came up with basically the same numbers a couple of weeks ago. The number of people who believe there's solid evidence to support agw is dropping. People are taking time to consider the science behind global warming, and educating themselves about it. More and more they're beginning to see it for what it is, dishonest, misleading, and political. The liberals are still anxiously running around yelling...

I really think most people can't comprehend how much the lib low balling will cost. http://www.npradc.org/newsRoom/factSheet…

Pretty simple - people tend not to worry about long-term problems when they're focused on short-term problems. For example, when people are stressed out, they tend to eat and smoke more to feel better in the short-term, temporarily ignoring the long-term health effects of these choices. In this case people are worried about the economy in the short-term, so long-term problems like global warming get pushed to the back burner....

This is almost two weeks old so I appologize if this has been previously asked. A recent pew report indicated that the number of Americans who see global warming as a threat has dropped 20 points (from 77% to 57%)from three years ago. The biggest decline came from those who saw themselves as independents. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1386/cap-and… What do you think has happened, or hasn't happened, that would cause the collective...

Nice caveat. I also wouldn't be surprised if more than half of those polled think global warming is caused by CO2 destroying the ozone layer.

Fewer are concerned because more realize it's a big lie. Simple. Unless there is a major lockdown on free flows of information, that poll will NEVER go up again.

i think it makes sense - whenever news is most recent, there's bound to be a sort of obsession and over reaction to it. plus, i think people's attentions have shifted from intense doom and gloom over to what can we do about it and making little changes. ie they're perceiving that we're making progress. actually, there's really good film i just saw about exactly that. you might be interested:...

It can only be seen as VERY dangerous. Irrespective of global warming, which may become the coup-de-gras as regards humans, perhaps mammalian species in a broader sense. Mate, the fear campaign seems to be working, globally the people are grumbling with practically identical arguments, loss of employment, loss of whatever. Humans are reaching a critical confluence, and it isn't either far off in time, or even our fault, really; it was...

People like to believe in something that is logical and makes sense. Since Al came out and said we were all going to die because we were heating up the world, it has been trending cooler (Last 10 years). Hard to follow like a sheep when the prediction is obviously wrong at least for this period in time. More and more scientists and news media are beginning to be not afraid to ask for more proof for the theory of AGW. So far the models and...