Comments on: Just 51% of Americans Believe in Global Warming, Down from 71% in 2007

By: Isabel

Isabel — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:12:25 +0000

Haha. I love how Global wafrming is still a debatable issue in the states. Where in Canada its known fact just ask any 5 year old. Sadly ironic that you suffer from the effects of Global warming far more than we Canadians do, yet you still need convincing while youre fishing for your homes and possesions under 10 ft of water.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:13 +0000

And Americans wonder why the rest of the world often considers them stupid.

By: tew

tew — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:41:20 +0000

The events ‘david harvison’ describes have nothing to do with global warming. Bizarre that david leads logically, making the point that the causes of global warming should not be based on ‘belief’, but on science. david then uses the weakest of rhetoric to jar the reader into suspending his/her rational thought process in favor of images of burning rivers and scores dead from a chemical gas cloud.

By: Beammeupscotty

Beammeupscotty — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:50:08 +0000

Newton was still trying to alchemize gold when he died but that didn’t minimize his thinking or contributions to science. We need to continue paying attention to those with solid evidence and rationale before we start mis-theorizing based on an uninformed and unqualified journalistic or religious sources. While Gore is the marketing guy, there are others like Hansen et al, that bring serious credibility to the issue and we ought to pay close attention to their findings and opinions.

By: Ibclimbin

Ibclimbin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:13:02 +0000

Amen, Brother Bryant! Aoufhe heufhw oshf yaway. [That was me speaking in tongues]

Another anti-science denier showing his ignorance. Its not just about AGW or ACC. Look at ocean acidification, glacial melt, and desertification. Do you really think man can just continue to double its population every couple of generations and it not affect the Earth?

By: Iain

Iain — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:39:51 +0000

It is awakening that is necessary to begin to accept climate change. Whether human or natural, the climate is changing. The significant changes going on all around the planet support that things are not quite the same. Whether human or natural, the climate is changing. Permafrost is no longer so permanent. Glaciers are no longer so glacial. The temperatures are no longer so temperate. Whether human or natural, the climate is changing.
Acceptance of change is one of the most difficult we creatures of habit must endure. “Beliefs may be influenced by the fact that about 25 percent of the U.S. population are evangelical Christian”. If 25% of a country is so intensely avoiding truth, this same 25% is not taking any responsibility for their own actions and influences.
Let’s put some perspective to this. “evangelical christians” are stating science in their defence of climate change. It strikes me that any religous person who uses science in their favour is really at a disadvantage credibility-wise, both to their “faith” and those who they influence. Science is not flexible last I read.

By: Bob O.

Bob O. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:04:39 +0000

From this article: “I think it is a little vain to think man could destroy this great planet…”

The insertion of the word “belief” in this conversation is an incredible misnomer and travesty. Global Warming, Weirding, or Climate Change is not Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny. It’s like asking the question of these people, “do you believe in gravity?”

A better question would be if these people understand climate change.

Humans don’t have an effect on climate or the environment? Yeah, tell that people who witnessed the Cuyahoga river catching fire, Ecuador being a dumping ground for Texaco/Chevron, the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal, etc. Better yet tell it to that to the residents of Tuvalu, the Maldives, Louisiana.

The point is that we’re poisoning and drowning each other and we refuse to acknowledge it.

By: david harvison

david harvison — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:36:10 +0000

The continuing effort on the Global believers to misstate the issue continues: the issue is the acceptance of anthropic global warming, not global warming (since 1830).

By: Bryant

Bryant — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:58:18 +0000

If there were even a little serious reporting done regarding real questions about the science of man-made global warming in the mainstream press, there would be even less people convinced of its certainty. AGW is a scientific theory being sold as a scientific fact. The lack of questioning or the more damning, in my opinion,”scientists” saying the questioning of the issue should end makes me highly skeptical.