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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 02:09 PM Apr 2012

Poll: Most Americans Link Climate Change To Unusual Weather Events

Most Americans believe that global warming has played a role in a series of unusual weather events during the past year.

A poll released today by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication found that 72 percent of Americas believe global warming played a role in the very warm winter the United States just experienced.

As we reported, 2011 was a record setter with 14 different weather events that caused more than $1 billion in damage.

The poll found that most Americans linked these events — "record high summer temperatures in the U.S. in 2011 (70%), the drought in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 (69%), record snowfall in the U.S. in 2010 and 2011 (61%), the Mississippi River floods in the spring of 2011 (63%), and Hurricane Irene (59%)" — to global warming.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/18/150886905/poll-most-americans-link-climate-change-to-unusual-weather-events?

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Poll: Most Americans Link Climate Change To Unusual Weather Events (Original Post) MindMover Apr 2012 OP
The other 28%..... izquierdista Apr 2012 #1
Just love your sensibility..... MindMover Apr 2012 #2
yup stuntcat Apr 2012 #3
28%? progressoid Apr 2012 #4

progressoid

(50,000 posts)
4. 28%?
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 03:02 PM
Apr 2012

Wasn't that about the same as W's die hard support?

Edit: Sorry, my mistake. W's approval dipped to 19%. I was being waaay to generous.

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