Tuesday, January 20, 2009

“Manmade global warming” losing public support

Rasmussen reports - - -

Al Gore’s side may be coming to power in Washington, but they appear to be losing the battle on the idea that humans are to blame for global warming.

Forty-four percent (44%) of U.S. voters now say long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming, compared to 41% who blame it on human activity.

Seven percent (7%) attribute global warming to some other reason, and nine percent (9%) are unsure in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democrats blame global warming on human activity, compared to 21% percent of Republicans. Two-thirds of GOP voters (67%) see long-term planetary trends as the cause versus 23% of Democrats. Voters not affiliated with either party by eight points put the blame on planetary trends.

In July 2006, 46% of voters said global warming is caused primarily by human activities, while 35% said it is due to long-term planetary trends.

The rest of Rasmussen’s report is here.

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My comments:

These two sentences caught my eye:

Two-thirds of GOP voters (67%) see long-term planetary trends as the cause versus 23% of Democrats.

Voters not affiliated with either party by eight points put the blame on planetary trends.


So Rasmussen finds a majority of “not affiliated” voters agree with "[t]wo-thirds of GOP voters" that “planetary trends” and not humans are responsible for global warming.

MSM often tells us “conservatives” reject manmade global warming claims. But how often do MSM news orgs tell us a majority of unaffiliated or independent voters also reject those claims?

I can't ever recall liberal/leftist news orgs such as NPR and the BBC telling us majorities of Republicans and independents
both reject manmade global warming claims while only a majority of Al Gore’s fellow Dems embrace them.

Can you?

Hat tip: Instapundit

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Researchers have proof that the polar icecaps have been melting at a fairly rapid rate over the past three years.
On Earth? Nope, on Mars.
Could one of the geniuses please show me where the SUVs and coal-fired factories are on the Red Planet?
Tarheel Hawkeye

Anonymous said...

What's the old saying that's attributed to Lincoln?

'You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.'

It seems to me the fools in the first part 'some of the people all the time' would be the 59% of Democrats who believe in manmade global warming.

Scott S.

Anonymous said...

It is stunning to me that the global warming/climate change cult is largely left wing. These are the same people who ridicule fundamentalist Christians who take issue with the theory of evolution. The lefties can't imagine that anyone would believe that species have not changed over time.

Yet, the global warming cultists insist that variations in climate and temperature are unprecedented -- that things on earth were always the same for eons until the bad humans came along and discovered fossil fuels.

The fundamentalists used to tell me that dinosaur bones and fossils and carbon dating were the tools of Satan, used to sow doubt that the world was a few thousand years old.

I wonder if the marine fossils found far from the NC coast (that prove that the seas were once much higher) or evidence of Greenland once being green are the work of evil "deniers" hired by Exxon Mobil to con us into believing that climate and temperatures have varied over time.