Poll Highlights Disparate Beliefs in Climate Change Between Canadians and Americans

And despite the Canadian people getting it, their government continues to be consider one of the biggest roadblocks to international action on climate change.


A recent poll of Canadians and Americans suggests that Canadians believe in climate change and support government policies, including cap and trade; more so than their neighbours to the South.

Participants in both countries were given questions ranging from their acceptance that climate change exists to what they think should be done about it. While Canadian acceptance of climate change is very strong with 80% of respondents believing in it’s existence, only 58% of Americans held the same to be true, a downswing from 2008 when the American public reached its height of belief in climate change.

Link: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/poll-highlights-disparate-beliefs-climate-change-between-canadians-and-americans

But I suspect it has something to do with a less fervent religious right, at least at the moment.

On average, Canadians tend to be more reality-based, and more sophisticated, than Americans.

Look up the Powell Memorandum of 1971. That was one of the main turning points in recent American history, and set the stage for Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and James Inhofe.

We get a lot of spillover here in Canada because we share a culture, but it was the American zeitgeist that was specifically targeted and attacked by American business interests, all on the back of Powell's scurrilous handiwork.

get rid of fox fix many problems in this country because the fox views won't know how to vote and probably wont vote anymore.

...played a crucial role in the "Climategate" debacle. I don't think anything else they've leaked can quite make up for their participation in the hounding of climate scientists.

For that matter, the NY Times and others were a detriment. Most corporate media outlets not only gave the deniers regular exposure, but they constantly refused to generate any "controversy" over the long string of failed theories and criticisms put forth by deniers.

The differences between the US corporate media mostly amount to the style and level of emotion with which their advertising-bait is delivered.

In reality, the inhabitants of the frozen tundra to the north are actually routing for global warming...

:)

As long as the recipient of our affections comes with greenbacks to trade for our black tar.