Global Warming: Not So Hot

Washington Post ^ | August 31, 2007 | Karlyn Bowman

[neverdem]

Americans think global warming is real and serious. Poll after poll shows that there are not many climate skeptics left. The issue has received an enormous amount of media attention over the past several years, but it still doesn't rank at or near the top of issues people want the president and Congress to address.

In January, when the Pew Research Center updated its yearly poll on priorities for the president and Congress, global warming ranked twentieth of twenty-three issues. Pew described concern about the issue as "lukewarm." The poll was taken before the latest wave of media attention to global warming, but other more recent polls show the same pattern. In a survey taken in late May and early June by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation,...

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Finally, there may be another reason Americans have not elevated the issue. Most politicians younger than 81-year old House Environment and Public Works chairman John Dingell grew up with the environmental movement. We're all environmentalists now, and it is hard to make a political issue out of a commitment shared by most of the population. George Bush's marks on virtually every aspect of his presidency are negative, including his handling of global warming, and Democrats lead the Republicans in every poll as the party better able to handle the issue. In a new Newsweek poll, 68 percent say Bush hasn't done enough, but in another question only 4 percent say they will vote on the basis of global warming. Nearly six in ten say the issue will be one of a number of issues that will be important to their vote. There is little evidence from the polls that taking on George Bush or the Republicans on the issue will make it a top-tier issue or increase its political weight.

[William Tell]

The last line of the article: "There is little evidence from the polls that taking on George Bush or the Republicans on the issue will make it a top-tier issue or increase its political weight."

This was the whole purpose of the survey and the article; to help the Demoncrats choose issues which will help them win in 2008.

[webheart]

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[SteamShovel]

Weird. I used to consider those things as the weather. It’s funny how brainwashing works.

It used to be that one could be interested in the science without politics getting involved, telling us that socialism is the only way to stop this and save the world.

But that was a long time ago (before my time), say about Teddy Roosevelt's time, or could it be as far back as Jefferson's time?

[neverdem]

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[BigLittle]

I love it! Thanks

[COBOL2Java]

Americans think global warming is real and serious.

Do much research beyond your liberal echo chamber, Karlyn?

[BobS]

An unthinking, somewhat liberal gal at work buys into this stuff. She stank up the lunchroom by burning a bag of popcorn in a microwave while BSing around. I said with global warming, things heat up naturally.

Get them to blame global warming for the dumb things they do. And be serious looking.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Lancey Howard]

“Global warming” hoax BUMP!

[Colonel_Flagg]

Americans think global warming is real and serious. Poll after poll shows that there are not many climate skeptics left. The issue has received an enormous amount of media attention over the past several years, but it still doesn't rank at or near the top of issues people want the president and Congress to address.

That's a wonderfully written piece of ... something.

Where I live, most people joke about "global warming". Frankly, I could use some. I'd love to see winter a few degrees warmer. But then I'd like to see winter disappear completely, so my opinion is biased. :)

[SuziQ]

The only reason most Americans think Global Warming is a serious problem, and that humans are at fault, is because it’s ALWAYS in the news, and they’ve been told by the media for YEARS that it is a problem. They just accept what they hear on TV or the radio.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>Karlyn Bowman is a senior fellow at AEI. where she studies public opinion.<<<

AEI is John Bolton’s new stomping ground. My cousin works for him.

[Coleus]

New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears

New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears

Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory

Breaking: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links!

[xcamel]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ND, not news, op-ed. :’)

[prairiebreeze]

bump for later read

[George - the Other]

“If you repeat a lie often enough it will become ‘the truth.’ ... You really have to be on your guard at all times in this propaganda age.”

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” - Joseph Stalin

[GeronL]

Um.... I’ll sell them to you, Would a printout certificate do the trick? I think $100 per month from 10,000 FReepers should get me through, I mean save the world, =o)

[Libloather]

Americans think global warming is real and serious.

No, they don't. Karlyn Bowman is lying...