What Americans think of climate change

Forkboy

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Wed May-09-07 12:48 AM
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What Americans think of climate change

Edited on Wed May-09-07 12:49 AM by Forkboy

The Environment and Energy Study Institute hosted a presentation of a series of national surveys, the latest one showing that 84% of Americans think human activity contributes to climate change. Dr. Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology at Stanford Univ., discusses his research.

Watch in Realplayer.
rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/energy/energy050407_climate.rm

I watched this last night.It was very interesting.

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upi402

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Wed May-09-07 01:12 AM
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1. Why do I always come up on the 16%

God hates me?
:sarcasm:

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razzleberry

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Wed May-09-07 03:10 AM
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2. people lie

people lie to surveys.

impossible to know the real number

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OKIsItJustMe

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Wed May-09-07 10:38 AM
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4. On the whole surveys are accurate

If surveys were wildly inaccurate, they would not be used.

More frequently the problem is not that people lie, but that their answers to questions are misinterpreted or misrepresented.

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razzleberry

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Thu May-10-07 01:51 AM
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7. you are overly trusting

the client gets the true survey results,

everybody else gets BS, essentially what the client
wants people to believe.

I don't necessarily even believe
a survey was even taken, as a
survey costs money.

would be lots cheaper just to announce
'''results'''

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GreenPartyVoter

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Wed May-09-07 06:28 AM
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3. "Give me an environmentally-friendly way to keep living the way I do, and I'm on-board."

Which makes sense. Most people want to hang on to the comfort of the status quo.

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OKIsItJustMe

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Wed May-09-07 10:42 AM
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5. More Information Here

http://www.eesi.org/briefings/2007/Energy%20&%20Climate/5-4-07_Climate_polling/climate_polling_notice.html

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Forkboy

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Wed May-09-07 12:55 PM
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6. Excellent...thanks for adding that.

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