The war between the global warming pollsters is on. Last week, in a NYT op-ed that was widely discussed in the media, Stanford’s Jon Krosnick asserted that national surveys released during the last eight months have been interpreted as showing that fewer and fewer Americans believe that climate change is real, human-caused and threatening to…Continue Reading…
Via Matthew Nisbet, I read this NPR transcript from a show discussing the recent Pew poll that had climate advocates wringing their hands in disbelief. The NPR conversation between Pew’s Andrew Kohut and Yale researcher Anthony Lieserowitz is a worthwhile read for anyone who seriously wants to engage with those poll results. The bottom line:…Continue Reading…
The NYT has a nice round-up of perspectives on this recent Pew poll, which finds: 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. I tend to think this poll is more a snapshot in time. We’re still…Continue Reading…
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