Comments on: Data Bank: Surveys Show that Americans Respect Scientists, a Gap Persists on Perceptions of Climate Change, but Public Supports Action to Curb Emissions http://scienceprogress.org/2009/07/data-bank-american-support-science/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Monica Metzler http://scienceprogress.org/2009/07/data-bank-american-support-science/comment-page-1/#comment-5684 Monica Metzler Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:26:03 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=3929#comment-5684 Whenever a study like this comes out, the results always boggle the mind. From the snippets given here, a minority of Americans, only 47%, think global warming is a very serious problem and yet a clear majority support regulation of greenhouse gases. How odd. (Clearly the seeds of doubt are well planted that there is not consensus among the scientific community regarding global warming.) How were the questions worded? Since when does the American public support lots of government regulation of things that aren't an important problem?! I should be happy that at least people are accepting the need for cutting greenhouse gases. Whenever a study like this comes out, the results always boggle the mind. From the snippets given here, a minority of Americans, only 47%, think global warming is a very serious problem and yet a clear majority support regulation of greenhouse gases. How odd. (Clearly the seeds of doubt are well planted that there is not consensus among the scientific community regarding global warming.) How were the questions worded? Since when does the American public support lots of government regulation of things that aren’t an important problem?! I should be happy that at least people are accepting the need for cutting greenhouse gases.

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