Fewer Americans See Climate Change a Threat, Caused by Humans

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pawana of IN 3:43AM August 29, 2011

There is an educated segment of the American public who are not afraid to review the information for themselves and arrive at their own opinion. This is why there has been a turnaround on the topic. I have a BS in mathematics and physics and have delved deeply into the subject and have concluded that the panic over man-made global warming is a fraud.

Spare me the argument that billions are spent by one side to sway the public. Billions have been spent by the IPCC and its supporters to sell this medicine just so they can line their own pockets with an endless supply of money and political power.

Their arguments are now changing to meet existing conditions and the extent of the fraud becomes more apparent by the day. It will be just a matter of time until they are held accountable for their treachery.

Jeff of IL 8:31PM August 28, 2011

as they drop those megaton bombs on this earth,first in the west now in the east think about the change that the en-pack has on this entire planet.

weather changing,ground shacking,heat spading out, mineral moving and diseases spanning to cover the planet is only part of what happen.

the more you hit the more the of the en-pack pushing the earth back an forth so that it rocks on it's axis.

now you tell us that only drive our car's to work and some times to just get out and have fun,that we are the killer of this planet.lets stop and think who has the biggest en-pack on earth change.

first off the trees take in carbon and put out clean oxygen.that is why i be-leave that the trees in California are lager then the one were there is less carbon gas put out.where as the bomb takes down trees and sucks the oxygen out of the air putting out deadly gasses.

my point is this if we do not stop dropping the bombs on this earth we will see fast dramatic change that no normal person that sits in there house,car or at work could ever have done in a life time.

look where you should be looking stop blaming the poor for what the wealth have done.

donald maxwell of AR 1:46PM August 28, 2011

Richard Matthew

So what. Exxon gave $100 million to Stanford to support their global warming propaganda programs. BP gave $500 million to U Cal Berkeley.

The environmental advocacy groups of which you may be a part, George Soros and the government through its grant fire hose funnelled through the corrupt NSF has funded alarmism to the tune of $10.2 Billion.

Do you want any sensible person to believe that comes with no strings attached or that that funding isn't a huge incentive for the grant toting corrupted scientists to deliver a message that will keep that funding going. Even NOAA's chief administrator, formerly with EDF said in 1999 the social and environmental needs required scientists to provide support in exchange for contract funding.

Thank God for Koch and anyone else for any help in getting the truth exposed and the green energy policies that have paralyzed the EU shot down in the US.

Joseph DAleo of NH 8:58PM August 26, 2011

The following says it all:

"Despite an increase in the number of companies that are adopting sustainable practices, major multinationals like ExxonMobil and Koch Industries are waging war on the environment. These two companies are aggressively resisting the trend towards a low carbon economy. In addition to being major producers of greenhouse gasses, ExxonMobil and Koch use their influence to lobby governments and create resistance to global-warming-related regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol and the UN sponsored Conference of the Parties (COP). Some of their most destructive actions pertain to their funding of misinformation campaigns that fuel climate change denial.

According to a 2004 study commissioned by Friends of the Earth, ExxonMobil and its predecessors caused 4.7 to 5.3 percent of the world's man-made carbon dioxide emissions between 1882 and 2002. The group suggested that such studies could form the basis for eventual legal action.

ExxonMobil has been a leading figure in the business world's position on climate change, providing substantial funding to a range of climate change denial groups. According to Mother Jones ExxonMobil-funded a total of 40 organizations that "either have sought to undermine mainstream scientific findings on global climate change or have maintained affiliations with a small group of "skeptic" scientists who continue to do so."Between 2000 and 2003 these organizations received more than $8m in funding.

Koch Industries is the major source of funding for climate denial. From 2005 to 2008, Koch donated $5.7 million on political campaigns and $37 million on direct lobbying to support fossil fuel industries. According to the non-partisan research group the Center for Responsive Politics, between 1997 and 2008, Koch Industries donated a total of nearly $48 million to climate opposition groups. Koch Industries and its subsidiaries spent more than $20 million on lobbying in 2008 and $12.3 million in 2009."

© 2011, Richard Matthews

Whether you agree with them or not, the amount of money they have spent is indisputable.

Good thing the rest of the industrialized world is on board with this science - even if the ever more propagandized here are not. Who says we want to be a world leader? They must be delusional.... Leaders dont' deny and attempt to work with misinformation. Greedy folks do.

DeeToo of SC 2:18PM August 26, 2011

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