Posted by: Tony Carson | 3 July, 2007

Global warming? In the US a matter of ideology

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The Pew Research Center looks at the way Americans view global warming and concludes it is often a matter of political perspective.

Posted in Environment, Politics

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  1. Herein lies the problem with Global Warming as a concern. It is hard to take an issue seriously when it has been hijacked by politicians for political gain. And I am saying this referring to both sides of the aisle and their rhetoric. It is too bad that we will likely never get a true accurate unbiased report on what is actually going on. http://www.dryflypolitics.com

    By: Swint on 3 July, 2007
    at 7:56 pm

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  2. Swint:
    That is the case in North American politics, where cars and oil rule. Not in the UK. It’s all green all the time in Lib Dem, Labour, and Conservative camps. Unbiased reporting may come in the form of IPCC, the UN appointed intergovernmental Climate Change panel. For those who dislike giving the UN credibility, there is the science community, who form about as good a consensus as any group can.

    But more than anything, there is logic. What do we lose by diversifying industry and asking more efficiency out of our fuels? Why deny global warming? Considering what is at stake?

    By: Sam Carson on 3 July, 2007
    at 8:07 pm

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  3. The thing that gets me about the US and Canada is that they’re looking on global warming as a kind of zero sum game: it will cost too much to do anything, even if the science is true.

    The US has long been the great can-do innovator, why wouldn’t it look on new technology to deal with global change as a new and exciting economic opportunity?

    If it ever wakes up to the new reality the country may find that it has missed the boat on this, that it will have to import all the ideas it could have generated. I find it really troubling that the US which has an amazing record on all matters to do with invention and creativity is essentially taking a pass on a technological evolution the world desperately needs.

    A case in point: with the US refusing to hit higher standards in MPG gas consumption (even though they could), it means they won’t be able to export their cars not only throughout the world but even to California and other states with higher targets? It’s absurd.

    An iPhone can take you so far.

    By: Tony Carson on 3 July, 2007
    at 8:49 pm

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  4. In 2006 a movie like “An inconvenient truth” appeared and last year the majority of USA voters blamed human activity. Last year a new movie “Not evil just wrong” appeared which asserted global warming is just a scam which is creating a sort of hysteria. Now public opinioni changed… Is it a coincidence? Which is the truth? What I fear most is the evil (I should say) and not just wrong usage of media both from the side of producers and final users. Maybe this is the first problem to be worried about because this can represent the way in which problem’s relevance is gained.

    http://italianopinionist.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/antarctic-peninsula-and-global-warming-which-is-the-truth/

    By: The Italian Opinionist on 21 April, 2009
    at 9:51 pm

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