Americans Believe Global Warming Not

VIVAnews - According to the latest survey by researchers at Yale University & George Mason, United States citizens are considered less concerned with not even care about the issue of global warming.

According to the survey, only about half of Americans who now say "somewhat" to "very" concerned about the issue of global warming. How ironic, this number dropped 63 percent compared to similar research in the last year.

Indeed, only about 57 percent who believe it will happen, down 14 percent than in 2009. And, now only a small proportion who agree that this is caused by human activity.

However, when it was ironic the number of Americans who do not care about the issue of global pemasanan very dramatically increased lately. Unfortunately, most respondents believe that they will be flown to a safer place later.

"Despite scientific evidence due to issues of global pemasanan begin serious look around the world, public opinion in the U.S. actually moves in the opposite direction," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale Project on Climate Change, which cited VIVAnews from TG Daily, Saturday, January 30 2010.

"Over the past year, the United States has experienced an increase in unemployment until frustrated with Washington as the financial crisis, which pushed the change coverage in the media coverage," said Leiserowitz.

"Plus, there's a case of one set of emails from climate scientists who stole the critics, who then become the basis that the claims of climate change turned out to contain many errors. This leads to erosion of public confidence in the research of climate scientists," he explained.

This survey shows that the public did not care anymore with scientific opinion of scientists published. The number of Americans who believe that global warming will happen down about 34 percent.

In the meantime, found 40 percent of respondents now believe there is disagreement antarilmuwan about global warming.

"The scientific evidence is very clear, climate change is a reality that will happen. It's all human activity and a serious threat to society in America and around the world," said Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University.

"Erosion of public trust and concern about global warming ought to call people and organizations to be more intensively educate the public about this important issue," he said.

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