Hot Topic (7/31): Does anyone care about global warming anymore?
From Green Inc., a NY Times blog:
Californians’ eagerness to battle global warming seems to be cooling a bit: The latest survey on the state’s environmental attitudes, released on Wednesday, showed that 47 percent consider the threat of global warming very serious, a decline of seven percentage points from two years ago.
Two-thirds of Californians now support the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, the landmark 2006 legislation requiring the state to slash its greenhouse gas emissions — down from 78 percent two years ago.
Still, 61 percent of Californians say the effects of global warming are already occurring, only a slight decline from last year’s 64 percent, and above the 53 percent in the rest of the country, as measured in a March Gallup poll.
And when it comes to old-fashioned air pollution, just 23 percent of residents think that’s a big problem, a drop of 11 percentage points from last year. California is home to two of the most polluted regions in the country — the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles and the agricultural Central Valley.
The annual survey on Californians and the environment was conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Mark Baldassarre, the institute’s president, said that there continues to be strong support among Californians for climate change policies, but those policies are debated along increasingly partisan lines.
The P.P.I.C. poll showed that 86 percent of Democrats favor regulating greenhouse gas emissions from refineries, power plants, and motor vehicles, versus 54 percent of Republicans and 79 percent of independents. Likewise, 57 percent of Democrats favor a cap-and-trade program to curb emissions, but 55 percent of Republicans oppose it; independents are almost evenly split.
Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford professor of environmental biology and global change, suggested that the slippage could be due to current economic woes and also to the absence of natural disasters. Without last year’s big wildfires or Gulf hurricanes of the magnitude of Ivan in 2004 or Katrina in 2005, “people slip back” into complacency, he said.
Steven F. Hayward, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington, said the cooling off of California’s attitudes “shows us the limits of how far you can go in regulating the economy and raising the cost of goods in service of the environment.”
But Kathryn Phillips of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Sacramento office takes the longer view. Not many years ago, she said, “If we heard about 66 percent of Californians being worried about greenhouse gases, we would have thought we hit the jackpot.”
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Do you think air pollution is a big problem?
Do you want the government to increase regulations to combat global warming and to control pollution?
Do you think people have caused global warming?
I do not support the Global Warming concept @ all. 1000's of Scientists do not agree w/ the GW findings. I sincerely have concerns about our environment & search for ways to improve our surroundings but I do not succumb to the Al Gores of the world~
I think humans have contributed to global warming but I also think we are just in a natural warming cycle. The earth goes through hot and ice age cycles all the time and we are seeing earth changes now.
Quoting blondekosmic15:
I do not support the Global Warming concept @ all. 1000's of Scientists do not agree w/ the GW findings. I sincerely have concerns about our environment & search for ways to improve our surroundings but I do not succumb to the Al Gores of the world~
For once, I agree with you!
I don't care about global warming, never believed it, still don't. Global Warming/Climate Change is the biggest farce perpetuated on the American/World population EVER.
Kathy
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing" said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~Winnie The Pooh
There is no global warming just changes in the weather which occur in nature. It has been debunked by so many scientists and actually the earth has cooled down one degree since last year. Of course there is pollution and problems in certain areas but global warming no. It is just another way for liberals to try and get their ideas out there. Al Gore is the biggest fake of all. Look at the way he lives. If global warming were true he would be riding a bike and putting up windmills on his property. He just wants the publicity.
Here are the facts:
Pollution is a REAL problem.
Pollution can only be combated if a large number of people partake in the fight.
Most people don't give a crap unless things directly influence/effect their life..
Global warming is real...but it's a NATURAL process the earth goes through to regulate temp after the last ice age.
People will act if they're scared.
People are scared of global warming.
Global warming makes some people rich.
Pollution NEEDS to be fixed.
People need to stop being taken advantage of and just care about the earth.
Everyone has an opinion.
I do believe in global warming but I'm no extremist. I'm not gonna yell at you cuz you drive a SUV and not Pruis. I won't look down on you if you use plastic and you don't bring your own bags.
I watched that video and the title needs to be changed that those scientist WANT to sue Al Gore not that they are. Even the guy says he wants to but he never mentions that they are. I'd like to know how many scientist are in the world and why it's only 30,000 that believe this. He also mentions that we have been using fossil fuels for a very long time. Yes that's true but I think we are using more fossil fuels then ever before. Cars weren't around 200yrs ago. We use more and more fossil fuels. Anyways that's just my opinion.
The world is going to end in 2012 anyways, who believes that?
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