Activist: New climate poll shows ‘reality will trump big dollar denial efforts’

[Playinghardball]

Following the publication of a George Mason University poll on Wednesday that shows 69 percent of Americans believe the weather is getting worse due to climate change, author and environmental activist Bill McKibbon hailed the findings as proof that “reality will trump big dollar denial efforts” by the pollution-causing industries.

The report, “Extreme Weather, Climate & Preparedness in the American Mind,” (PDF) shows a growing number of Americans have been impacted by severe weather as the number of unusual events has grown in recent years. A full 69 percent of poll respondents said climate change was a driving factor behind the increased instances of tornadoes, hail, flooding, wildfires and droughts.

That’s a dramatic improvement over just 42 percent of Americans who told Angus-Reid pollsters in 2010 (PDF) that they believe climate change is real and driven by emissions from human industry.

“I think it’s a reminder that over the long run reality will trump even the big dollar denial efforts of the fossil fuel industry,” McKibbon, leader of the climate action organization 350.org, said in an email exchange. McKibbon’s group is planning a day of climate education on May 5, launching events across the country to help inform Americans of the dire threats posed climate change.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/18/activist-new-climate-poll-shows-reality-will-trump-big-dollar-denial-efforts/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I'd like to see post-May 5 polling just to find out

if the 350 May 5 campaign has any effect on public opinion.

We surely need some ways of getting the truth out to the public, and ought to be testing the effectiveness of what we do.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I agree with the poll, I just hope the cultural tipping point

regarding global warming climate change happens fast enough to avert the worst, no going back effects of the self-sustaining, environmental tipping points.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

[Initech]

3. Never thought you could sum up earth's slow death in two words: Heritage Foundation

Fuck the Koch Brothers and their paranoid climate denial fantasies. Again they and their billionaire buddies are the only real group of people who can accurately be called terrorists.

[Johonny]

4. but will it trump them in congress?