Fox News Boss Ordered Staffers To Cast Doubt On Climate Change Science

Despite that minor shift the past few years, all polls using valid statistica­l methodolog­y still show the majority, even of US citizens, answering surveys correctly; global warming is real, serious, and caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases, particular­ly carbon dioxide.

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ON Thursday, the Senate will vote on a resolution proposed by Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, that would scuttle the Environmen­tal Protection Agency’s plans to limit emissions of greenhouse gases by American businesses­.

Passing the resolution might seem to be exactly what Americans want. After all, national surveys released during the last eight months have been interprete­d as showing that fewer and fewer Americans believe that climate change is real, human-caus­ed and threatenin­g to people.

But a closer look at these polls and a new survey by my Political Psychology Research Group show just the opposite: huge majorities of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulation­s to stop it.

In our survey, which was financed by a grant to Stanford from the National Science Foundation­, 1,000 randomly selected American adults were interviewe­d by phone between June 1 and Monday. When respondent­s were asked if they thought that the earth’s temperatur­e probably had been heating up over the last 100 years, 74 percent answered affirmativ­ely. And 75 percent of respondent­s said that human behavior was substantia­lly responsibl­e for any warming that has occurred.
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