Articles Tagged "Public Polls"

With 46 percent of American voters believing there is a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection environmentalists are facing an uphill battle. In a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, released today, a majority say global warming can't be blamed on humans. Forty-four percent said long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming, compared to 41 percent who fault it on human activity.

This winter's record low temperatures and snowfall are one more indicator that recent global warming is likely not a result of man-made activities but of the natural ebb and flow of temperatures, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. The rhetoric has been that human activities are causing the earth to warm, ice caps to melt and hurricanes to get more destructive, adds Burnett, but the evidence increasingly shows that is not true. In fact, over the past decade the global average temperature has fallen to its lowest levels in 30 years..

As the title suggests from the Huffington Post by Kevin Grandia, CO2Sceptics are starting to make waves, and as you will see, these guys are not taking it very well. Normally we highlight such quotations from the other side of the fence in GREEN but this time it's good news for CO2Sceptics so it's BOLD RED.

"Opinion polls conducted in the United States over the last year confirm the upward trend in people who believe that global warming is not caused by human activity. One series of polls conducted by Rasmussen Reports found that between April and December, 2008 the number of respondents who attributed global warming to "long term planetary trends" and not human activity increased from 34 percent to 43 percent."

Updated below from NewsBusters

Angus Reid Global Monitor) - While still high, the proportion of people in the United States who are concerned about climate change has dropped this year, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 65 per cent of respondents believe global warming is a very or somewhat serious problem, down eight points since April.

In addition, 43 per cent of respondents believe global warming is primarily caused by human activity, while 43 per cent blame long term planetary trends.

The term global warming refers to an increase of the Earth’s average temperature. Some theories say that climate change might be the result of human-generated carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In 2007, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which states that global warming has been "very likely"—or 90 per cent certain—caused by humans burning fossil fuels...

Denmark deadline..
ENVIRONMENT: A sagging global economy and a shift in public opinion make next year’s international climate treaty less likely by Mark Bergin

For the past decade, the Earth’s warming trend has ceased, despite steady increases in global carbon dioxide emissions.

From the following Editorial in Kentucky.Com In the dark on climate change We expected to read a CO2 Sceptical article but instead read a patronising report that seems to backfire in support of common sense, we were glad to note the public support on this.....

Scientific opinion is as close to unanimous as it ever gets that human activity is contributing to making the Earth warmer. Dozens of countries, and hundreds of U.S. cities, have adopted the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse emissions. But polls show that fewer than half of Americans believe pollution is making our Earth hotter

Many thanks to the Tom Nelson web site for this information...

Climate Change survey in America: Only 18% believe it's real, caused by humans, and harmful

Americans are sharply divided in their beliefs about whether climate change is real, according to a new study commissioned by The Nature Conservancy and other leading conservation and climate action groups.

From Hartford Courant - United States

Poll: Global Warming On Back Burner
by DAVID FUNKHOUSER

The poll, taken Oct. 7-14, surveyed 2,189 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. Asked how important a candidate's views on global warming are in making up their minds, nearly two out of three undecided voters — 62 percent — said it is "one of several important issues." Just 1 percent said it was the "single most important issue," and 37 percent said it is "not an important issue."

From fcpp.org (Frontier Centre for Public Policy)

New COMPAS Poll: Immense Public Frustration with Politicians Over the Global Warming and Climate Change Debate

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66% of Canadians condemn politicians for providing poor-to-bad explanations of global warming and climate change and for their policies on the same.
78% of Canadians think the public has a right to more, fair and objective information from the media on the professional and scientific opinions of all sides in the debate.

From The Los Angeles Times (LATimes.Com}

The green bubble bursts
by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

Democrats and greens ended up in this predicament because they believed their own press clippings -- or, perhaps more accurately, Al Gore's. After the release of the documentary film and book "An Inconvenient Truth," greens convinced themselves that U.S. public opinion on climate change had shifted dramatically, despite having no empirical evidence that was the case. In fact, public concern about global warming was about the same before the movie -- 65% told a Gallup poll in 2007 that global warming was a somewhat or very important concern in comparison to 63% in 1989.

From Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Taking a Cue from the Canadian Election's Focus on Climate Change
by Jeremy Jacquot

Imagine for a minute an election in which green issues like carbon taxes and renewable energy take center stage -- an election in which 60 percent of voters recently made clear that climate change will be a top issue, or even the issue, guiding their ballot. Sound far-fetched?