76% of Americans Now Acknowledge Climate Change Is Occurring--Including the Majority of Republicans

Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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"Maybe it's the weather. Or the Pope. Or the irrefutable scientific data. Or perhaps a combination of all three.

The latest UT Energy Poll released this morning reveals that U.S. attitudes on climate change have shifted significantly - and not just in the ways you might expect. Seventy-six percent of Americans now say that climate change is occurring--an increase from 68 percent just one year ago. Further, only 14 percent say it's not, compared with 22% when we first asked the question in the Spring of 2012.




The increase in acceptance climate change is not merely reflective of shifting attitudes on the left, which only rose a few points to 90 percent over the last six months. Republicans who say that climate change is occurring jumped from 47 percent in March to 59 percent this September.



The 76 percent who said 'climate change is occurring' were also asked what factors they think contribute to it (responses were not mutually exclusive):



I'll have a lot more on the UT Energy Poll coming soon (and for those interested, methodology can be found here). In the mean time, I'm curious to hear what readers think accounts for the shift in attitudes we're observing?"

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/over-3-out-of-4-americans-now-acknowledge-climate-change-is-occurring-including-the-majority-of-republicans/
 
MuyLocoNC

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I'll go on record that the climate is changing. I will then continue as 43% (the non-libs) of the 76% did, that it's not man-made. 43% of 76% plus the 24% who don't think the climate is changing or havent been convinced, equals 56.68% who don't believe in MMGW.

Thank you for proving we're still in the majority.
 
Rrog

Rrog

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I welcome climate change. I get chilly as I get older. And I don't care for polar bears
 
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spandy

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Harrekin said:
Inb4:

Solar panels and magic electric cars (that use coal produced electricity).
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No shit, right


And in roughly 100 years when the population doubles, then what? Moar fans?

Or even in 20-30 years when there could be hundreds of millions of electric cars across the globe. How the fuck we gonna charge them all? The environmental damages from all this will be greater than what gas powered has done thus far.

They gonna fuck it up worse, and in the process bleed that much more out of everyone's pockets.
 
potroastV2

potroastV2

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MuyLocoNC said:
I'll go on record that the climate is changing. I will then continue as 43% (the non-libs) of the 76% did, that it's not man-made. 43% of 76% plus the 24% who don't think the climate is changing or havent been convinced, equals 56.68% who don't believe in MMGW.

Thank you for proving we're still in the majority.
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Wow, you're actually correct about something!

Yes, you are in the majority of people who have an I.Q. of 100 or less.

Cling to that. :lol:

:mrgreen:
 
ginwilly

ginwilly

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londonfog said:
:roll: yeah sure you never peeked at his comments when you claimed to have him on ignore...STFU
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wtf? I have somebody on ignore because I'm ignoring them. The closest I came to even communicating with the dude since then was making fun of him and telling him what he was going to say before he said it. Even then I didn't read what he wrote because I didn't need to.

Your obsession is creepy.
 
londonfog

londonfog

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ginwilly said:
wtf? I have somebody on ignore because I'm ignoring them. The closest I came to even communicating with the dude since then was making fun of him and telling him what he was going to say before he said it. Even then I didn't read what he wrote because I didn't need to.

Your obsession is creepy.
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:roll: You claim to have had him on ignore before, only to reply to some of his post...please STFU
 
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