Pew Research Center: Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming
[Hmmm...that couldn't be because no one has really talked about it on a national level since "An Inconvenient Truth," could it? And because if you think health care reform is hard, wait 'til Obama appears on TV in a sweater, and recommends we turn down our thermostats and maybe take the bus... -Ed.]
There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades. In April 2008, 71% said there was solid evidence of rising global temperatures…