'A tipping point': record number of Americans see global warming as threat

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'A tipping point': record number of Americans see global warming as threat Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:39:09 No.345191

A record number of Americans believe global warming will pose a threat to their way of life, new polling data shows, amid strengthening public acceptance that rising temperatures are being driven by human activity.

“I think a shift in public opinion and consciousness has been underway for several years now,” Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, told the Guardian.

A spokesman for 350 Action, the political arm of climate activist group 350.org, said meanwhile that politicians who cast doubt on climate science would soon have to take such polling into account. Republicans, he said, “are going to be screwed if they don’t change their tune”.

Polling firm Gallup, which has been tracking public sentiment on the topic annually since 1997, found that 41% of US adults feel warming will pose a “serious threat” to them during their lifetimes. This is the highest level recorded by Gallup, a 4% increase on 2015.

A total of 64% of those polled said they worried about global warming a “great deal” or a “fair amount”, the highest level of recorded concern since 2008. Just 36% of Americans said they did not fret about it, or only worried a little.

The results show a solidifying belief that changes in the climate are under way, with 59% of people thinking so. A record 65% of Americans said global warming was down to greenhouse gases released by human activity – a 10% leap on last year.

Just 31% said the warming was due to natural causes, the lowest level of such skepticism in 15 years. The March polling involved more than 1,000 adults in all 50 states.

Strikingly, concern over global warming has grown across the political divide, with 9% more Republicans saying they worry about the issue “a great deal” compared to last year.

There remains a partisan divide, however, with just 35% of Republicans blaming human activity for global warming, compared to 85% of Democrats. Among independents, 68% accept humans are the main cause of warming, with 64% saying they worry a lot about the topic.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/18/climate-change-record-concern-us-global-warming-poll

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:44:20 No.345195

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Well, you know what those Europoors always say about us stupid Americans…

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:48:07 No.345200

ghost post

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 20:25:52 No.345994

welp climate cult reaching a climax

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 23:54:55 No.346257

>>345195

Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities?

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 00:08:20 No.346270

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>more extreme temperatures

>people didn't see the danger in this

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 00:23:50 No.346280

No we don't. That's a lie.

We are angry about the middle class being fucked over, we are angry about the outsourcing of our jobs, we are angry at our horrific healthcare system, we are angry about freedoms being lost, we are angry that our troops fight in wars that don't benefit us in any way and they come back getting no decent medical care, we are angry about the lack of border protection, we are angry over the massive increase in poverty, etc.

Take your stupid fucking globalist 'save the planet kill yourself' PR bullshit and SHOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 00:39:49 No.346292

it's too late you dumb murrifats, much too late, i hope tornadoes and hurricanes will wipe out all of you!

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 00:40:19 No.346293

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>global warming

it's "climate disruption" now, gramps

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 03:40:07 No.346436

>Americans feel vague fear of abstract things they hear about in fear mongering American culture

That's breaking news. Next you'll tell me they're afraid of a tiny group of Muslim zealots on the other side of the world that the full force of the US military could wipeout in a leisurely weekend.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 03:47:39 No.346446

>>345191

>Americans feel vague fear of abstract things they hear about in fear mongering American culture

That's breaking news. Next you'll tell me they're afraid of a tiny group of Mooslim zealots on the other side of the world that the full force of the US military could wipeout in a leisurely weekend.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 03:53:55 No.346448

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>>346436

>>346446

>the full force of the US military could wipeout in a leisurely weekend.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 04:26:20 No.346463

>>346448

Exactly. The virtue of a "proportional" response of course is opinion. You risk seeming aggressive to some. It's a silly notion since any agression is aggresive, but that's the image game. Secondly you can maintain the narrative of an ongoing threat which distracts from immediate domestic issues. The drawback is hawks will demand more. The good news for them is there's always more… in the form of never ending "proportional" response.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:06:06 No.347442

>>346463

I'll add that my analysis applies only to non-state or proto-state enemies like ISISILISis. Whatever. Like in the episode, we see a state presents long term consequences including escalation. IsleyMcISIL is at best capable of last ditch terror attacks before being destroyed. Long term the consequences are then preferable to the status quo of never ending back and forth piecemeal bombing. This is from an earnest security perspective of course. Politically, ackbar is useful to US oligarchs.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:12:41 No.347445

>>346436

uh, i think a few welfare chicks with 9 mm's could handle that. not need to get the military boots blistered for this.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:19:13 No.347451

>>346270

oh, it fits into the slave-planet paradigm just fine.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:26:51 No.347459

>>346436

>that the full force of the US military could wipeout in a leisurely weekend

Ha! Then why haven't they, huh?

Because that's ==not== why they are in the Middle East. Do your homework, bro.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:34:23 No.347467

>>346280

>We are angry about the middle class being fucked over, we are angry about the outsourcing of our jobs, we are angry at our horrific healthcare system, we are angry about freedoms being lost, we are angry that our troops fight in wars that don't benefit us in any way and they come back getting no decent medical care, we are angry about the lack of border protection, we are angry over the massive increase in poverty, etc.

This. Americans are so screwed in so many other ways they don't have time to worry about a 'science' that still has not yet been proven. At this point, I'd rather see the American Republic restored then actually save the planet. That's how much I could give a shit about environmentalism at this moment.

Why 'save the planet' anyway if everyone is going to be forced to live in complete third world squalor under global despotism and endless wars? What's the point?

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 20:48:35 No.347480

>>347459

Because they haven't been ordered to obviously. This is exactly as planned by the oligarchs. I think you misread my posts. I don't need any more homework, bro.

>>347467

Exactly. Global warming is a political tool. EPA can't even into clean drinking water. Tackling real problems is bad for business. Fake problems are far more practical for government.