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Monday, July 28th, 2014

In U.S., Most Do Not See Global Warming as Serious Threat

Author:     JEFFREY M. JONES
Source:     The Gallup Organization
Publication Date:     13-Mar-14
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Stephan:   Maybe one reason America has been slow to deal with carbon energy is that most Americans don't really see climate change as a big deal likely to affect them. Why don't they? Because the Murdoch operation, one of the largest communications empires in the world, some of the richest people in the world, and their political whores have, for at least a decade, been engaged in a deliberate misinformation campaign. Billions of dollars have been spent to see that the public is confused, and their profits protected. I consider this a crime against humanity. If we put a Black kid away for life for a bag of pot, what should be the punishment of a cabal that has put humanity, and all the other beings of Earth at potentially fatal risk? Click through to see the several charts and graphs.

PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans continue to believe that the effects of global warming are happening or will begin to happen during their lifetimes. At the same time, many fewer, currently 36%, believe global warming will pose a serious threat to their way of life during their lifetimes.

Trend: Expectations for Global Warming During Lifetime

The results are based on Gallup’s annual Environment poll, conducted March 6-9. Only about half of those who expect global warming to occur during their lifetimes, 51%, believe it will pose a serious threat to their way of life. This explains the gap between Americans’ perceptions that global warming is occurring and that it will be a threat.

Although the gap between the perceived occurrence and perceived threat of global warming remains wide, it is narrower than in the past. The percentage of Americans who believe global warming’s effects will happen during their lifetimes is the same now as it was in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question, and is among the lower readings over that 17-year span. During that same period, the percentage who believe global warming will threaten their way of life has increased from 25% to 36%.

Gallup’s 2008 survey marked the peak […]

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