Time poll: 85% of Americans believe in global warming

[kpete]

Poll: Americans See a Climate Problem
In a new TIME survey, most people see global warming worsening — and want action

Posted Sunday, Mar. 26, 2006



A large majority of Americans — 85% — say global warming is probably happening, according to a new TIME magazine/ABC News/Stanford University poll. An even larger percentage (88%) think global warming threatens future generations. More than half (60%) say it threatens them a great deal; 38% feel that global warming is already a serious problem, and 47% feel that it will be in the future.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1176967,00.html

[Guckert]

1. And the other 15% are retarded, legally insane, or whats left of the GOP

voters.

[JeffR]

2. ..

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ginnyinWI]

3. This number also reflects the number of conservatives out there.

Half of Americans vote, and 30% of those are conservatives. Assuming all conservatives do vote, overall that equates to 15% of Americans who refuse to look at the facts.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Breakdown by Party. The Republicans are getting stupider

The partisan gap on global warming seems to be shifting, according to the poll. In 1998, 31% of Republicans and independents alike were sure that global warming was happening, compared with 39% among Democrats. Today, 46% of Democrats and 45% of independents are certain, but only 26% of Republicans feel that way, according to the poll.

[KittyWampus]

5. Believe? Is Global Climate Change A Fact Or Belief?

[OhioNerd]

6. I don't think there's any real doubt that the planet is getting warmer.

Maybe it's past time to stop wrrying about whether or not GW exists and time to focus on the next questions. I think there is one basic question that we need to be addressing and it has three parts to it. The question is: "Expressed as a percentage, how much of GW is absolutely attributable to natural Events, How much is absolutely attributable to the actions of Humans and how much are we uncertain about?" For those few who want to cling to the idea that climate change is not occuring, let them. For the rest of us, it's time to take a much more comprehensive look at why it's happening so that we can determine what actions are actually possible, to mitigate the problem. I think it would be very foolish to focus our attention on perfect solutions that are unattainable at the expense of less than perfect solutions that we can actually bring about.