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Belief in
Global Warming
at All-Time Low –
BEFORE
ClimateGate
December 7th, 2009
NEWSMAX.COM
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A new poll reveals that the
percentage of Americans who
believe carbon dioxide emissions
will cause global warming has
dropped dramatically
in recent years.
And that poll by Harris Interactive
was conducted between
Nov. 2 and 11 —
before the so-called “climategate”
controversy erupted,
calling into question the validity
of some of the science supporting
manmade global warming.
The poll found that the
percentage of American who
believe in global warming has
dropped from 75 percent in
2001 and 71 percent in 2007
to just 51 percent.
At the same time,
the percentage of those who do
not believe in global warming has
risen from 19 percent in 2001
and 23 percent in 2007 to 29
percent today,
and the percentage who are
unsure has climbed from 6 percent
to 21 percent since 2001.
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“The 51 percent who believe
emissions will cause climate
change is by far the lowest number
recorded in any Harris Poll since
we started asking this question
12 years ago,”
Harris Interactive disclosed.
Opinions differed sharply
along party lines —
73 percent of Democrats believe
in manmade global warming,
compared to 28 percent of
Republicans and 49 percent
of Independents.
As for the upcoming international
conference in Copenhagen,
Denmark,
only 28 percent of those polled
knew that the main topic to be
discussed is global warming and
climate change.
Nearly 10 percent said the
economic crisis would be the topic,
while smaller numbers cited
nuclear weapons,
health and epidemics,
terrorism,
international trade,
or drugs.
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Six days after the poll closed,
on Nov. 17,
someone hacked a server used
by the Climatic Research Unit of
the University of East Anglia
in Norwich, England,
and disseminated more than a
thousand e-mails and
other documents.
Climate change skeptics charge
that the e-mails show collusion
by climate scientists to skew
scientific information in favor
of manmade global warming.
The leaked documents
“show that prominent scientists
were so wedded to theories of
manmade global warming that
they ridiculed dissenters who
asked for copies of their data,
plotted how to keep researchers
who reached different conclusions
from publishing,
and concealed apparently
buggy computer code from
being disclosed under the
Freedom of Information law,”
CBS News reported.
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One climatologist at the
National Center for
Atmospheric Research was
quoted as saying:
“The fact is that we can’t
account for the lack of
warming at the moment
and it is a travesty
that we can’t.”
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__ClimateGate links in GREEN
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_Copenhagen links in GREEN
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