Thursday, April 24, 2014

Good news: Global warming skepticism on the rise

Morton Grove, IL earlier this year
By now of course the ice cap at on the north pole should have melted and Santa's castle at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, if Al Gore's chicken-little prediction was correct.

Actually, Arctic sea ice is growing

So of course global warming skepticism continues to grow in the United States, much of which endured a brutal winter.

From Time:
A new Gallup poll that coincides with Earth Day finds the number of Americans with mixed opinions about global warming has declined from 49 percent in 2001 to 36 percent today, but many have joined the ranks of the skeptics

Americans are becoming more divided in their opinion on impact of global warming and humanity’s role in the phenomenon, as the number of global warming skeptics has roughly doubled over the past 10 years to encompass one in four of the population.

The portion of Americans with mixed opinions about global warming has declined from 49 percent in 2001 to 36 percent today, according to a Gallup poll released on Earth Day Tuesday. Over the same period the number of people who are concerned about global warming and see mankind as its cause has held fairly steady at 39 percent, while the number of people who say they’re "solidly skeptical" of global warming has rocketed from 12 percent in 2001 to 25 percent today.
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