Thursday, August 16, 2012

All that and universal health care too

And also rare instances of spree killing:  
Only two per cent of Canadians who responded to a new opinion poll believe climate change is not occurring...
The findings are in a survey conducted by Insightrix Research, Inc. for IPAC-CO2 Research Inc., a Regina-based centre that studies carbon capture and storage.

The online poll of 1,550 people was done between May 29 and June 11. The results were to be released on Wednesday.

"Our survey indicates that Canadians from coast to coast overwhelmingly believe climate change is real and is occurring, at least in part due to human activity," said centre CEO Carmen Dybwad.
Granted the words "on-line poll" cause concern, but in comparison:
37% of Democrats believe global warming is the result primarily of human action, while only 14% of Republicans believe this. Conversely, 43% of Republicans believe global warming is the result of natural causes, up from 35% in 2010. Self-identified Tea Party members display still more certainty (49%) that global warming is caused by natural events.
I wonder what evidence those resisting this belief are relying upon? [cross-posted at Firedoglake]

2 comments:

pansypoo said...

i am sure the changes in canada are more dramatic. plus they have real news. here we have 24/7 inception.

Anonymous said...

Self-identified Tea Party members display still more certainty (49%) that global warming is caused by natural events.

And 94% believe Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.