13% of Americans live under a rock!

[cynatnite]

OSLO (Reuters) - Thirteen percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though their country is the world's top source of greenhouse gases, a 46-country survey showed on Monday.

The report, by ACNielsen of more than 25,000 Internet users, showed that 57 percent of people around the world considered global warming a "very serious problem" and a further 34 percent rated it a "serious problem."

"It has taken extreme and life-threatening weather patterns to finally drive the message home that global warming is happening and is here to stay unless a concerted, global effort is made to reverse it," said Patrick Dodd, the President of ACNielsen Europe.

People in Latin America were most worried while U.S. citizens were least concerned with just 42 percent rating global warming "very serious."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/us_nm/globalwarming_survey_dc

[ChicagoRonin]

1. Perhaps we need a network reality show?

"Climate Change Idol"
"America's Best Polluters"
"Iceskating with the Stars (on Melting Polar Ice)"
"Survivor: Middle America"

[Taverner]

2. Flat Earth has its devotees too

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Not as many, though--if only because there's little corporate interest

in promoting the theory. Figure out how to get rich turning Americans into flat-earthers, and they'll all be flat-earthers within 5 years.

[Taverner]

9. The Vatican and Opus Dei have interest

They would love to see us go back to the heady days of Bernardo De Guy

[Jackpine Radical]

3. More proof of how effective the U$ Corporate Media can be

in di$$eminating di$information to the ma$$es of $tupid American$.

[Double T]

5. ........and those ENTIRE 13% voted for and support bushco,........

who ALSO live under a boulder.

[Reterr]

6. K&R for all threads on global warming.nt

[TheDebbieDee]

7. Chris Rock once said, "Knowledge is like Kryptonite

to some people." and I think this 13% would agree with that statement!

[nealmhughes]

8. But they all know who the last American Idol was, or has the most points in NASCAR.

Functioning dunces are no novelty. The "average" IQ is 100, which in reality is nothing to brag about...

Now if the "average" person is a C in the brains dept., then look at all the dullards and genii to fill out the gaps...

But on the other hand, being disinterested and removed from reality is also nothing new, either, perhaps it makes life bearable for many, along Candide's advice to Pangloss: "We must cultivate our garden."