Stanford Poll: More People Doubt Global Warming is Real
Given that 2008 was a cool year, the number of global warming skeptics has actually increased, according to a Stanford University poll. Unlike Gallop polls that focus on people's reactions to media reports on global warming, the Stanford survey asked for independent opinions. SF Gate reports:
Although the vast majority of Americans believe the Earth is gradually warming because of greenhouse gases and want the government to regulate them, a small but growing number of people doubt that global warming is real, according to a new poll.
The Stanford University survey, released on Wednesday, found that 74 percent of those polled believe the world's temperature has been gradually rising over the past century, compared with 85 percent who believed it in 2006.
Jon Krosnick, a Stanford professor of political science, notes that the cooling trend in 2008 was just a "one-year drop in a 100-year warming trend".
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