Most Americans Support Government Action on Altitude Change, Poll Finds

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Among Republicans, 48 percent said they are added acceptable to vote for a applicant who supports angry altitude change, a aftereffect that Jon A. Krosnick, a assistant of political science at Stanford University and an columnist of the survey, alleged "The a lot of able finding" in the poll. 67 percent of respondents, including 48 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of independents, said they were beneath acceptable to vote for an applicant who said that human-caused altitude change is a hoax. The poll begin that 27 percent of Americans were added acceptable to vote for an applicant who took that position, and 44 percent beneath likely.

The poll begin that 83 percent of Americans, including 61 percent of Republicans and 86 percent of independents, say that if annihilation is done to abate emissions, all-around abating will be a actual or somewhat austere botheration in the future. In contrast, 40 percent of independents and alone 18 percent of Republicans said the same. Ninety-one percent of Democrats, 78 percent of independents and 51 percent of Republicans said the government should be angry altitude change. By party, 88 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of independents and 71 percent of Republicans said that altitude change was acquired at atomic in allotment by animal activities.

Of course, this should be great news and perhaps it is. If the Democrats had vision and courage, they could use this to shape their agenda. However, we also had polling a couple of years ago suggesting that a large majority of Americans supported some of the (minimal) reform to gun laws that were passed by the Senate. We know how that turned out. Why? Money and a VERY VOCAL minority that knows how to get its way. Perhaps this will be different, but the voice of ignorance seems to be much stronger and louder in the USA than any other, and combined with the power of money that harnesses itself to this dearth of wisdom, we just move further from what could be. If you're in doubt, look the move to reverse Dodd Frank for starters, and then re-visit the debate on gun laws, and then the endless move to repeal the ACA. I find the results of this poll rather strange and confusing.

Is this because the American public is confused about climate and weather or it is because they are not scientists? Most people react to climate change only when they feel the wrath of nature on their own backyard. If it snows copiously, they tend to deny global warming, and it there is a great drought they tend to believe in it. These are just weather events that do not on themselves tell the real conditions of the climate and its variation through time. Climate is usually defining as the average of the global conditions of the atmosphere, ocean and land OVER 30 YEARS, so the weather of yesterday or last week is immaterial to what scientists call climate. The poll finding that a majority (80%) of the public believes that climate change is produced by humans...in this country? with the Koch brothers telling everyone watching TV otherwise? I doubt that result very much. It is more likely to happen in Europe, not in the US.

The hero here is whoever first stated that there was a correlation between climate change and weather disasters. Now, every weather disaster is taken as evidence of global warming. And as those struck by tornadoes and hurricanes, record snowstorms and droughts come aboard, our numbers grow. Melting polar ice caps may be the best evidence, but firsthand experience changes the world. We have recruited many Californians because of the drought. Just between you and me, the Times reported a study indicating that the drought has been caused by local factors. I wouldn't tell the millions affected. After all, the icecaps are conclusive, if they believe in the drought, I see no harm done. People who are irrational have no right to stand in the way of solving life-threatening crises. "I'm not a scientist." So what are you an "Educator"? If not you can't make decisions about education. Are you a "Doctor"? If not you can't make decisions about health care? Are you a "Lawyer"? If not, you can't make decisions about the law. Are you a "Banker"? If not, you can't make any decisions about banking. The excuse is meaningless. Basically, it means that the politician can't make any decisions except the field they trained in. What this shows is that the Republicans obviously don't have a mandate, despite the elections they won last term.

If you name any issue where the two parties differ, there is always an overwhelming support for the Democrats side. So why do people keep voting for Republicans? Beats me, but it sure isn't their policies. Perhaps voters are being brainwashed by Koch Money. Or perhaps they are mad at the Democrats for behaving too much like Republicans, and don't notice that the Republicans will behave even more like Republicans. It's amazing that anyone believes that the United States isn't among the world's biggest polluters. We rank up there in the top five and if we didn't have the EPA regulating smokestacks, water, car emissions and the like we'd probably be number one, because relative to our population, Americans consume far more than other developed countries.