US pollsters argue over public view on climate change
source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19028-us-pollsters-argue-over-public-view-on-climate-c...
They may have got climate sceptics steamed up, but the "climategate" leaked emails and flaws in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have not influenced US public opinion about global warming much.
That's one message of a new survey from Stanford University in California. But this and other polls also show a steady decline over the past few years in belief that the planet is warming.
Jon Krosnick, who has previously worked with New Scientist to probe public attitudes to climate change, has run polls on global warming each year since 2006. In his team's latest survey, conducted between 1 and 7 June, 1000 randomly selected adults in the US were asked the same questions as in previous years, plus some new ones about recent controversies.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19028-us-pollsters-argue-over-public-view-...
That's one message of a new survey from Stanford University in California. But this and other polls also show a steady decline over the past few years in belief that the planet is warming.
Jon Krosnick, who has previously worked with New Scientist to probe public attitudes to climate change, has run polls on global warming each year since 2006. In his team's latest survey, conducted between 1 and 7 June, 1000 randomly selected adults in the US were asked the same questions as in previous years, plus some new ones about recent controversies.
read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19028-us-pollsters-argue-over-public-view-...
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