Blog # 10 Climate Change Poll Finds Increased Concern In Americans

According to a  recent poll conducted by Gallup more Americans are becoming concerned about the effects of global warming though it appears that they're still not as convinced about climate change as they have been in earlier years. In the article from the post lists that Fifty-eight percent of Americans say they worry a great deal or fair amount about global warming, up from 51 percent in 2011, but it happens to be below the 72 percent who said the same in 2000, according to Gallup. It has been a rising trend that people are contributing to the problem, the poll discovered, 57 percent of Americans saying global warming is caused by human activities, down from the high of 61 percent in 2007, but up from 50 percent in 2010. In 2010, 48 percent of Americans believed news about global warming was exaggerated, whereas 41 percent said the same this year. That's still higher than the long-term average of 36 percent, according to Gallup. So you’re probably reading all of this and wondering, “Why all the flip-flopping?” Gallup pollsters suspect peaks in Americans' concern about global warming (the late 1980s, the late 1990s, 2006-2008) might correspond with effective campaigning to raise awareness about the issue, such as the release of Al Gore's 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Also during this time period, efforts by global warming skeptics sow doubt about climate change, particularly in the past few years.

The Gallup poll was based on telephone interviews conducted March 7-10, with a random sample of 1,022 adults, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The polling agency estimated that the margin of error for the poll was 4 percentage points. The full results can be found on the Gallup website.
So what does all this statistical jargon mean to you and me? In conducting my research and keeping up with the trends of climate change over the past months, it is unequivocal that climate has an effect on the entire world and not just in the sense warmer weather but it is affecting our economy and how we will conduct business in the future; our education and the way we will teach our children about the matter. The future of our wildlife is being threatened by dramatic changes in landscape and geography. The article illustrates how it is affecting our population and the perception of the problem. Much like all of the other concepts we talked about in the global concept this has and will eventually affect things that we do in everyday life.   

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/climate-change-poll-increased-concern_n_3038320.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change

 

Christopher Roberts

12 April 2013

1:39pm