Dohboi: I actually read quite a lot and do not make statements unless i see them backed up multiple times from different sources. Not only do polls show that Americans have a low interest in global warming- it shows that Americans don't even rank global warming high on their concerns EVEN COMPARED TO OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.
I choose polls that are done by major firms like Gallup, not interest groups, if you click on the link below of a poll in 2104 you will see global warming ranks in 8th place well behind even other environmental issues (it loses to water pollution by 20%!)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/168236/ameri ... rming.aspxPRINCETON, NJ -- The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report this week warning of the existing and potentially severe adverse future impact of climate change, yet most Americans continue to express low levels of concern about the phenomenon. A little more than a third say they worry "a great deal" about climate change or about global warming, putting these concerns at the bottom of a list of eight environmental issues.
dohboi wrote:Ah, more uncited blather.
"Most Americans say they’re concerned about environmental issues"
"If you add the active participants (17 percent) and sympathizers (42 percent), you reach 59 percent, a healthy majority of Americans [are environmentalists]..."
http://ecowest.org/2013/05/30/gallup-fi ... entalists/
What the heck are you trying to prove with this poll you cite? It talks about hostility to environmentalists and doesn't even separate global warming out from "environmental issues". If this is your idea of citing support then is a truly awful. You attempt at supporting your point with a very unrelated poll that you take great liberties to interpret in your favor.
The poll I cite directly talks about the point I am making- I don't even have to explain it the connection is so clear a 4th grader can see it.
dohboi wrote:And on the more anecdotal side:
http://www.theguardian.com/global-devel ... -303452465In June, the Catholic church in the Philippines joined the One Million Against Coal Campaign, which aims to gather at least one million signatures nationwide in a bid to pressure the government to reverse the approval of dozens of coal power plants meant to address the country’s energy security concerns.
“We are strongly opposing coal energy because of its negative effects on the health of the people and the environment. Coal plants are the primary cause of global warming,” says Father Edwin Gariguez, executive director of Caritas Philippines National Secretariat for Social Action, the church’s social action arm.
The petition was announced days before Pope Francis called on the world to phase out the use of fossil fuels in his powerful 180-page encyclical on the environment. Gariguez told the Guardian the encyclical confirms they’re on the right track.
Anecdotes? Are you serious? That's your response? A weak, unrelated poll that doesn't eve talk about the issue we are discussing (global warming) and anecdotes?
dohboi wrote:Oh, and thanks for airing your bias, prejudice and ignorance, but actual studies find:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/0 ... opulation/Minorities Care More About Climate Changemost Asian Americans hold particularly strong green values,” citing a 2012 survey of Asian-American political attitudes in the leadup to the presidential election, which found that 70 percent of Asian-Americans consider themselves environmentalist...
...89 percent of blacks supported the regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, compared to 78 percent of whites
You are seriously citing a study by two BERKLEY CALIFORNIA POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSORS as a legitimate poll? You are really desperate here. Berkley is the most liberal academic institution in America- you might as well cite a global warming study by the Petroleum Institute.
So, since you like liberal studies, I'll give you the results of a Yale report:
There are significant differences in views about the causes of global warming based on race and gender. Four in 10 blacks who think global warming is happening say it is caused mostly or entirely by human activities, compared with about 6 in 10 whites.
http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/HT ... brief.aspxdohboi wrote:Ah, more uncited blather.
Oh, and thanks for airing your bias, prejudice and ignorance, but actual studies find:
So do you have any other totally ignorant misinformation that you want to spew here, or are you done for now?
You will notice I attack your argument and evidence- but I do not take personal shots are you. The internet lets us be anonymous- but that just gives us an opportunity to reveal who we really are. Neither of us are going to change the world much by ourselves. Its not worth it to debate stuff if it changes you into an ugly person. I am starting to see why so many others here at PO.com refer to you in a disrespectful manner- why not just debate and leave the personal attacks out of your posts? It isn't worth it- just have fun and learn.