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Where's That Consensus on Global Warming?; Oh Yeah, There It Is!
Topic Started: Apr 28 2007, 04:33 AM (195 Views)
QuirtEvans
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At least, among the general public.

From the NY Times:

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Americans in large bipartisan numbers say the heating of the earth’s atmosphere is having serious effects on the environment now or will soon and think that it is necessary to take immediate steps to reduce its effects, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds.

Ninety percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans said immediate action was required to curb the warming of the atmosphere and deal with its effects on the global climate. Nineteen percent said it was not necessary to act now, and 1 percent said no steps were needed.

Recent international reports have said with near certainty that human activities are the main cause of global warming since 1950. The poll found that 84 percent of Americans see human activity as at least contributing to warming.

It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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The Iconoclast
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79% of Americans believe the Virgin Birth is literally true (Newsweek), 80% believe the US government is hiding evidence of the existence of aliens (CNN/Time) and 68% believe there is an official cover-up about the truth of the Kennedy assassination (ABC).

People will believe all sorts of things.
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John D'Oh
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There's certainly a lot more evidence to support global warming than the virgin birth.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Copper
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John D'Oh
Apr 28 2007, 08:32 AM
There's certainly a lot more evidence to support global warming than the virgin birth.


True. Global warming has happened many times before. The virgin birth only once.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Horace
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where the public opinion matters is in deciding what we do about it. As for the public consensus opinion on what's causing global warming, i care precisely as much about that as I do about the public consensus opinion on how to do arthroscopic knee surgery.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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kenny
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Financial interests control the news now.

We are doomed. (Unless you personally own a huge corporation.)
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AlbertaCrude
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No Kenny, only the 21% who either question or reject the Virgin birth are doomed. Everyone else is on the fast track to salvation.
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