{"id":10173,"date":"2011-09-25T15:32:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/25\/the-majority-of-americans-thin\/"},"modified":"2011-09-25T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:32:45","slug":"the-majority-of-americans-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/the-majority-of-americans-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Majority of Americans Think Global Warming Is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a poll.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On climate change, 69% of respondents said that they believe that &#8220;there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades,&#8221; with 26% saying that they did not believe it, 2% volunteering that there is some or mixed evidence, and 3% saying that they didn&#8217;t know or refusing to answer the question. Among those who believed that there is evidence (whether solid or mixed), 64% said that &#8220;[c]limate change is caused mostly by human activity such as burning fossil fuels&#8221; came closest to their view, while 32% preferred &#8220;[c]limate change is caused mostly by natural patterns in the earth&#8217;s environment&#8221; instead, and 4% said that they didn&#8217;t know or refused to answer the question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, that comes out to about 44% believing that climate change is anthropogenic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/09\/new-poll-evolution-climate-change-006884\">Science education anyone? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a poll. On climate change, 69% of respondents said that they believe that &#8220;there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades,&#8221; with 26% saying that they did not believe it, 2% volunteering that there is some or mixed evidence, and 3% saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/the-majority-of-americans-thin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Majority of Americans Think Global Warming Is Real<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[161,148],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2E5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}