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Ben Geman1 hour ago
The share of Americans who see solid evidence of global warming is at a 10-year high, and the acceptance of human impact has also trended upward, new polling data shows.
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Why it matters: The latest from the ongoing series of University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College polls shows the public, as a whole, is getting slightly closer to endorsing consensus science on human-caused warming, but still remains far, far from full acceptance.
By the numbers: 73% of people polled in April and May see "solid evidence" of warming, a slight uptick from recent years.
That's about where it was a decade ago, but in twice-yearly polls between the fall of 2009 and spring of 2015, the total percentages bounced around from the low-50s to the mid-60s.
Check out the chart above: 60% a record in their joint polling see some level of human influence, including 34% who see direct causation. The consensus scientific view is that human activities, notably burning fossil fuels, have been the dominant driver of warming since the mid-20th century.
Yes, but: The political chasm is immense. Per the report:
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https://www.axios.com/united-states-global-warming-climate-change-views-10-year-high-7f706e6f-6683-4011-b66b-db9b807ce6b8.html
hurple
(1,304 posts)How "American belief in Global Warming" always ticks up during summer?
This truly is a nation of idiots.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)the bird feeder melting or the dashboard of the car on a ten minute trip to the store? Hard to ignore. Al Gore was set to turn this around nigh' on 20 years ago...but no...Repub dirty tricks and cheating and dishonesty. And it will continue until we make an example of them once and for all. As a country of 340 million people...we cannot keep spiraling back when we finally reach the promised land.
genxlib
(5,506 posts)But damn those anti-Obama fuckers really turned us back in time.
Nothing else over the last 10 years explains why there would have been a dip in climate change concurrence while we were baking.