Are proponents of AGW / Climate Change inside the USA losing the credibility and importance war to the on-slaught of the "denial machinery" and special interests who use all the media tricks?
Article from: The Australian Print March 14, 2009
WASHINGTON: More Americans than at any time in the past decade believe that the seriousness of global warming is being exaggerated, a new Gallup poll shows.
Forty-one per cent of Americans told Gallup pollsters they were doubtful global warming was as serious as the mainstream media were reporting -- the highest result in more than a decade.
In 2004, 38 per cent of Americans thought news reports exaggerated the seriousness of global warming.
Gallup's 2009 environment poll, which surveyed 1012 adults by fixed and mobile phone, also showed that Americans ranked global warming last out of eight environmental issues they might be concerned about.
The pollution of drinking water was deemed the greatest source of concern, with 84 per cent of respondents saying it worried them.
Other issues that were ranked -- and beat global warming by at least five percentage points -- were water pollution in general, toxic contamination of soil and water, fresh water supply, air pollution, loss of rainforests, and the extinction of plants and animals.
The number of Americans who thought global warming was already affecting the planet fell from 61 per cent in March last year to 53 per cent this year.
A record high 16 per cent of Americans told Gallup pollsters that they believed the effects of global warming "will never occur".
"Americans *generally believe global warming is real (but) most Americans do not view the issue in the same dire terms as the many prominent leaders advancing global warming as an issue."
Article from: The Australian Print March 14, 2009
WASHINGTON: More Americans than at any time in the past decade believe that the seriousness of global warming is being exaggerated, a new Gallup poll shows.
Forty-one per cent of Americans told Gallup pollsters they were doubtful global warming was as serious as the mainstream media were reporting -- the highest result in more than a decade.
In 2004, 38 per cent of Americans thought news reports exaggerated the seriousness of global warming.
Gallup's 2009 environment poll, which surveyed 1012 adults by fixed and mobile phone, also showed that Americans ranked global warming last out of eight environmental issues they might be concerned about.
The pollution of drinking water was deemed the greatest source of concern, with 84 per cent of respondents saying it worried them.
Other issues that were ranked -- and beat global warming by at least five percentage points -- were water pollution in general, toxic contamination of soil and water, fresh water supply, air pollution, loss of rainforests, and the extinction of plants and animals.
The number of Americans who thought global warming was already affecting the planet fell from 61 per cent in March last year to 53 per cent this year.
A record high 16 per cent of Americans told Gallup pollsters that they believed the effects of global warming "will never occur".
"Americans *generally believe global warming is real (but) most Americans do not view the issue in the same dire terms as the many prominent leaders advancing global warming as an issue."