brat_olin
2011-06-10 07:59:52 UTC
Prosze zauwazyc, jak autor tych przemyslen chucpuje o "broad consensus" w
sprawie tzw. global warming. I o NAOA, ze oni tam wierza ze "human activity
is a leading cause" - ktos wie, w oparciu o jakie badania ta rewelacja?
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/americans-still-split-on-global-warming-poll-shows/
New York Times: Americans Still Split on Global Warming, Poll Shows
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Judging from an annual survey by researchers at Yale and George Mason
universities, the American public is roughly as fractured in its attitudes
toward climate change today as it was last year.
In the first of four reports based on the poll, the researchers estimate
that 64 percent of American adults now believe that the planet is warming,
up slightly from 61 percent last year. When asked to assume that global
warming is happening and to ascribe a cause, only 47 percent said that it
was caused mostly by human activity, however, down from 50 percent last
year. Roughly mirroring last year's results, 52 percent of Americans said
they were either "very worried" or "somewhat worried" about the warming
trend, while 48 percent said they were "not very worried" or "not at all
worried" about it.
Most Americans seem unaware of the broad consensus among scientists that
global warming is under way. Only 39 percent of the respondents agreed that
"most scientists think global warming is happening," and 40 percent agreed
with the statement, "There is a lot of disagreement among scientists about
whether or not global warming is happening." Eighteen percent said they did
not know enough to say one way or the other.
When questioned about flooding, droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires, roughly
half the adults surveyed strongly agreed or agreed somewhat that global
warming was making such events worse, however. All the same, despite the
frequency of such events recently, only 12 percent said they had been
thinking "a lot" about global warming, versus 18 percent last year.
Anthony Leiserowtiz of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, one
of the principal researchers, said that might reflect diminished news media
coverage of the issue.
The survey of 1,010 adults, conducted from April 23 to May 12, has a margin
of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, researchers said.
Neither the mainstream news media nor television weather reporters received
high marks for their global warming coverage: 62 percent of the respondents
said they strongly distrusted or somewhat distrusted information provided by
the mainstream news media regarding global warming; and 48 percent felt the
same way about global warming coverage from TV weather reporters.
Scientists at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration drew a
relatively high approval rating, with 76 percent of respondents saying they
strongly or somewhat trusted them. Of course, the agency states
unequivocally that the earth is warming and that human activity is a leading
cause. So if 76 percent of the American public trusts NOAA scientists
strongly or somewhat, why don't more people accept their conclusions?
--
Smart questions to stupid answers
sprawie tzw. global warming. I o NAOA, ze oni tam wierza ze "human activity
is a leading cause" - ktos wie, w oparciu o jakie badania ta rewelacja?
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/americans-still-split-on-global-warming-poll-shows/
New York Times: Americans Still Split on Global Warming, Poll Shows
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Judging from an annual survey by researchers at Yale and George Mason
universities, the American public is roughly as fractured in its attitudes
toward climate change today as it was last year.
In the first of four reports based on the poll, the researchers estimate
that 64 percent of American adults now believe that the planet is warming,
up slightly from 61 percent last year. When asked to assume that global
warming is happening and to ascribe a cause, only 47 percent said that it
was caused mostly by human activity, however, down from 50 percent last
year. Roughly mirroring last year's results, 52 percent of Americans said
they were either "very worried" or "somewhat worried" about the warming
trend, while 48 percent said they were "not very worried" or "not at all
worried" about it.
Most Americans seem unaware of the broad consensus among scientists that
global warming is under way. Only 39 percent of the respondents agreed that
"most scientists think global warming is happening," and 40 percent agreed
with the statement, "There is a lot of disagreement among scientists about
whether or not global warming is happening." Eighteen percent said they did
not know enough to say one way or the other.
When questioned about flooding, droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires, roughly
half the adults surveyed strongly agreed or agreed somewhat that global
warming was making such events worse, however. All the same, despite the
frequency of such events recently, only 12 percent said they had been
thinking "a lot" about global warming, versus 18 percent last year.
Anthony Leiserowtiz of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, one
of the principal researchers, said that might reflect diminished news media
coverage of the issue.
The survey of 1,010 adults, conducted from April 23 to May 12, has a margin
of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, researchers said.
Neither the mainstream news media nor television weather reporters received
high marks for their global warming coverage: 62 percent of the respondents
said they strongly distrusted or somewhat distrusted information provided by
the mainstream news media regarding global warming; and 48 percent felt the
same way about global warming coverage from TV weather reporters.
Scientists at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration drew a
relatively high approval rating, with 76 percent of respondents saying they
strongly or somewhat trusted them. Of course, the agency states
unequivocally that the earth is warming and that human activity is a leading
cause. So if 76 percent of the American public trusts NOAA scientists
strongly or somewhat, why don't more people accept their conclusions?
--
Smart questions to stupid answers