Don't Want to be an American Idiot.....

[marmar]

"Baaah Baaah Baaah" the Sheeple said. "We had a cool summer. Baaah Baaah Baaah!"




via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:



Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling

By DINA CAPPIELLO
The Associated Press


WASHINGTON — Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming.

Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, down 20 points in just three years, a new poll says. And the share of people who believe pollution caused by humans is causing temperatures to rise has also taken a dip, even as the U.S. and world forums gear up for possible action against climate change.

In a poll of 1,500 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People&the Press, released Thursday, the number of people saying there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has gotten warmer over the past few decades is down from 71 percent in April of last year and from 77 percent when Pew started asking the question in 2006. The number of people who see the situation as a serious problem also has declined.

The steepest drop has occurred during the past year, as Congress and the Obama administration have taken steps to control heat-trapping emissions for the first time and international negotiations for a new treaty to slow global warming have been under way. At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world's oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer.

The poll was released a day after 18 scientific organizations wrote Congress to reaffirm the consensus behind global warming. A federal government report Thursday found that global warming is upsetting the Arctic's thermostat. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/poll-us-belief-in-169483.html?imw=Y

[geckosfeet]

1. That's why 'climate change' is more accurate terminology. We had a wacky spring/summer.

Also had the earliest snow I can remember for this area. Two snows in mid-October.

[Ghost Dog]

4. "Climate destabilisation" is the best term,

because destabilisation is what is happening: a long-standing (in human terms) complex pattern is being interrupted and disrupted, with knock-on consequences.

[geckosfeet]

5. Indeed.

[JuniperLea]

2. Gosh! We're all scientists now!

We are all qualified to judge this! Smashing good success, we are!

Ignore those melting ice caps. It's snowing in Colorado... we're cool:)

Ugh.

The Earth is warming. The only debate left is whether this is a natural function, or if humans caused this... and can we slow it.

The RW wants to continue polluting, because they get rich that way. They will argue this to their deaths... literally.

[jillan]

3. They need to take that poll in Az - we have had a miserably hot summer -

the worst I ever remember. We broke all sorts of records - and besides -

aren't the predictions that weather would become more extreme? If you live in a hot climate, it will be hotter, a dry climate, it will be drier. A wet climate, it will be wetter? More tornadoes, more tsunamis, etc.

Climate change is definitely a more appropriate term to explain what is going on.

Wonder what it's like to have a brain that isn't able to think on it's own.