Reason #8 – Low on American’s worry list
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I’m neither a denier nor a zealot … so, according to British writer (& phrase-coiner) Matt Ridley, I’m a “lukewarmer”.
In a prior posts, I covered: (1) Unsettling science (2) Expired doomsday predictions (3) The “97% of scientists” baloney (4) Dinking with the data (5) Temperature readings – plus or minus (6) What’s the earth’s temperature? and (7) The Climategate emails
Let’s move on…
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Reason #8: Climate change is low on American’s worry list
According to a survey reported by tleft-leaning Brookings:
About 2/3’s of Americans think that they’ve read or heard solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer.
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OK, they say that they think the earth is getting warmer.
But here’s the rub:
Even if folks agree that they’ve read or heard that the earth is warming, they don’t seem to care much.

