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I think it's certain peoples pocketbooks that are skeptical. not the fact there is a shift in climate change.

Oh boy, here we go again.
Winter's coming, temperatures are dropping and the belief in a Global Cooling over a Global Warming tends to get stronger...
What's next, the predictable cartoon with the joke about two or more kids talking about having to do a text about Global Warming while walking in a blizzard?
Winter and the other seasons exist due to the inclination of the Earth toward it's axis of rotation/translation (can't recall exactly which one now), which makes portions of the Earth get more heath from the Sun during aproximately 3 months (Summer) of the year and then get less heath fromanother 3 months (Winter) with two transitory phases in between those two (Spring and Fall).
Global Warming (or even Cooling) can't change that.

On the Rise. Come one CNN. Gain some respect back. Put out a legitimate story on ClimateGate. Regain some credibility by letting the average American know about this. They cooked the books. It's a fact. Just tell the truth please.

It's easy to cool off in regards and concern over climate change or global warming in these economic times of uncertainty. However , we and all the peoples of this world ," planet EARTH " . We will care and if we don't our children's children will die asking why we didn't care enough to take action.

Or you can act irresponsibly like Sarah Palin thinking God will show up with a broom . When and if God dose show up he's going to be one angry landlord, I'm sure he won't give people like Palin there cleaning deposit back !

Direct inverse correlation between the growing level of ignorance /overall stupidity within the GOP and the decreased belief in global warming. This is a surprise? Apologies to the Palinites for my use of a complex phrase like "inverse correlation" " Try the following
"Heck, the more I dont read 'bout this global warming thing, the more it jist seems to git more downright confusin' . What we need here is a little downtown Wasilla common sense. Heck Ah kin see glaciers from ma window.. Bless Ronald Regan"

this wouldn't have anything to do about the e-mails that were discovered about collusion from scientists that global warning was a
made up study to benefit their livelyhood? at least cnn gave this a shout out but are still with holding the truth...THANK you N'Y. Times.

Too many people have too much invested in Climate change for them to back out now. Do you really think Al would give up his jet....
People who invested and have the business stand to make billions off of cap and trade not to mention the power is will give the people who control the programs. Wake up, If you want to reduce 'Global Warming' start using money to equip every home in north America with solar shingles. Fifty Million homes putting 2-4 KW, thats a whole bunch of coal and oil fired power plants that would not be needed.

And those pesty emails coming out just before Copenhagen showing that the data has been altered? Doesnt that sound better than forged?

The Path of Least Resistance at work. We don't want to actually deal with the problem, so we'll just pretend the problem doesn't exist.

"La la la la la I'm not listening la la la la la la...."

Is it that Global Warming skeptics are really on the rise, or are we just finding out that all those scientist telling us Global Warning is a sure thing, despite the fact we may be in a 30 year cooling cycle, are secretly every bit as skeptical as all the rest of us despite their willingness for us all to lose our jobs and livlihoods on the pet theories that are making them rich?

Get it right – it's not skepticism, Its just plain common sense. The theory is based on computer models that assume a certain outcome. That's not science

By the way, in honor of Hopenhagen, I recently purchase a new worod buring stove. Oh yes, it came with the blessing of the US Government and a 30% Tax credit. .

It is a joke. A political tool to cause fear and change. CHANGE I can live without.

And 21 percent of America thought george bush was doing a good job. There is a huge segment of this country that is completely devoid of any kind of critical thinking, or maybe thought in general. Demcrats need to focus more on education so we can pass real bills sometime in the future.

It's refreshing to see that Americans are finally waking up to the reality of what an utter SCAM the whole global warming nonsense truly is.

The whole notion is based on nothing more than junk science foisted on the public by anti-progress, pro-socialist, anti-American thugs who see nothing wrong with crippling the U.S. economy while turning a blind eye to the fact that communist China exports many times more pollution than the U.S. ever does.

I just wonder what needs to happen before the american public and the GOP law makers would wake up to the real issue of gobal warming? There is so much misinformation peddled by the big oil companies that is not funny.

Just because people don't believe something doesn't mean it isn't true.

Tell the islanders around the world having to leave their homelands that you are skeptical about rising sea levels.

global warming is al gores cash cow theres no such thing.there are warming trends and cooling trends this summer was the coolest on record in twenty years on the east coast!

The globe has been cooling for 10 straight years. There is zero science to back up any claim that the globe is warming.

They also believe that the earth is flat, was made in seven days, and that the moon is made of green cheese. Go figure!

of course, global warming is happening, just ask those scientists who make a living out of hyping it and quashing any one who thinks differently.

Truly amazing – some people think that a politician has more credibility on global warming than a climatologist? Is this for real? My goodness – our education system must be in pretty disasterous shape.

And considering that the pro-global warming nuts are cooking the research numbers doesn't help either. Al Gore might do well to sell off any stock in the climate change industry.

The earth has been warming up since the end of the last ice age and this is part of a natural cycle. The problem is that human activity has accelerated the cycle well beyond what the earth can cope with. The earth will continue to warm, ice will melt, oceans will rise, and weather patterns will change.

Hannity said Earth is cooling, so that's that.

Here's a quick litmus test about global warming:

Who has the most to gain by embracing the concept of global warming and doing something about it? Everyone in the world (because we all have to live on this planet).

Who has the most to gain by denying it? The fossil fuel companies who would lose money and every other company who would have to spend money to go green.

Money is a very motivating factor when it comes to human behavior. So simple analysis says that the folks who would lose or have to part with money are the biggest losers here and the ones who are the biggest deniers of global warming.

It's the great Owl Gore hoax. He's getting rich off you fools.

It's clear that the facts are getting out and educated people realize that it's pure hubris to think humanity can impact the climate. Simple things like the fact that Mecury, Venus adn Mars are warming due to the Sun's output but here on Earth it's because Al Gore says it is. Wake up and remove the politics – focus on the science and prepare for warmer planet. After all, we are in one of the coolest era's of our planet's history outside of the Ice Ages.

Al Gore has made a fortune on his bogus threats of global warming. Others like him (typical Liberals) are now hysterically frightened that they're exposed. This is yet another example of how the lies and efforts of the Left continue to hoodwink the American people. Todays revelation will throw a big monkey wrench into Obozo's Cap and Trade bill. The next big-government tax and spend nightmare coming from the Democrats!

Climate change is always happening. The climate isn't static and change is natural. We are now going through a period of cooling in much of the world. The preceding decade saw some warming. Limiting CO2 emissions to try to halt natural climate change would be an economic disaster. The idea that human activity significantly impacts global temperatures is absurd.

Keeping in mind that the 'attention span' of the average American is 20 seconds, when 'it' hits the fan, it's too late. Scream all you want... when and IF you EVER wake up! So, I take two, ten day cruises a year in a delux veranda suite, munching on Osetra Russian (malossol) caviar and sipping champagne, watching PhD's pushing a broom, as it were... the same folk who looked down their nose at me, before I retired at AGE 53! Living well, or at least better, is, indeed, the best revenge. Now, DO carry on making a mudpie out of the planet. Since I'm not on payroll anymore, stew in your own swill. (Now, how does it feel to have YOUR nose rubbed in 'it'?)

I'm not sure we should be willing to take the chance. The skepticism came from some hacked e-mails. But no where in those e-mails did it say they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes by readjusting the information. Let's not jump to conclusions based on which propaganda master we're listening to. Let's get the facts right on this. Our lives depend on it.

how much more evidence is it going to take for Americans and all the whack job tree huggers to wake up and face the facts that man is not causing global warming...... the earth is going through its natural cycle.... let me say this again-- THE EARTH IS GOING THROUGH ITS NATURAL CYCLE!!!!!!!!!!! we are not going to use this movement to bring down our Capitalistic system to appease the world or crack nuts who think the sky will fall if we don't.... Al Gore is a lying hypocrite who lost his golden ticket to Billions with the release of emails that confirm the scientific community who are falsifying data to make things worse than they are..... bye bye CAP AND TAX......

As it should be. I do not doubt that human civilization has had an effect on the environment but the degree to which we are changing global climate is highly inflated by people using the issue as a political tool. We should be worrying about protecting the environment but we should not be allowing people like Al Gore to profit from things like Carbon credits. When it comes down to it, there simply isn't enough data to make any determination about what climate is doing in the long term. We've only been collecting data on world climate for maybe 100 years; a moment in geological terms. And frankly, any variety of natural events could do inconceivably more damage then anything we could muster. There's nothing wrong with trying to be more eco-friendly but lets have the truth not dogma.

The average temperature is down for 2009 where I live and some people say it is a result of global warming – Go figure!!

According to the poll, that means that only 46% of the Refuseniks are brain dead. That figure sounds about 20% to 30% too low.

this is the biggest political joke the WORLD has ever seen.....

OHHHH...sorry, BHO is the biggest joke the world has seen and we're going down in flames for his stupidity.

I went out without a coat in late November in Northern Vermont. Nah, there's no global warming.

Scientists have explained everything that we know, from our solar system, the universe, and our own origins, some people may not believe in global warming because "it sure is hot out today" but I will continue to side with the intelligent side of the human race.

The result of having too much religion influence thinking, coupled with polluting industries dumping millions into disinformation campaigns to preserve their filthy-pig profit margins.

Big Coal would kill Americans wholesale for profit if they could get away with it.

In the end we will suffer because Nature cannot be fooled. I hope all the fatcats who profited by screwing up the climate are all caught and rendered for biodiesel.

I am not surprised, most people in this country will not believe anything until they are directly affected.

Sad commentary for this world.. Ignorance and Greed will win in the end.

Not surprising. Ignorance and illiteracy (aka "conservatism") are also on the rise.

Industry money does wonders.

Wake up people! Science is not your enemy.

Remember the doom and gloomers after Hurricane Katrina? "In the future, hurricanes will be more severe and more frequent!" Uh-huh. Only one has come ashore in the US since. This was the lightest hurricane season in recent memory. Probably the same people who predicted global cooling in the 1970s. A bunch of charlatans.

The sciences of geology and archeology confirm that climate change is a natural and recurring phenomenon. It's a pity that political correctness causes academic scientists to remain silent on what they know is true.

I was in Florida recently and the Letters to the Editors of the local papers were filled with various right-wing lunatic ravings against health care interspersed with calls from the same wing-nuts that their own property insurance premiums against hurricanes (amplified by global warming) should be subsidized by the rest of the country.

Al Gore is going to make a KILLING on this.

So let me get this straight...we are not able to compete with foreign lands on price of goods produced now...we are going to become competitive by placing more fines on the few successful companies we have left?

Will every nation do this or just the ones that are trillions of dollars in debt with massive trade imbalances?

So long as Republican States like Texas, Ole' Miss, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South and North Carolina continue to take the brunt of super hurricanes fed by warming water temperatures, let's consider this an intelligence test that Republicans continue to fail.

Last year the Yukon River in A.laska froze over TWO MONTHS earlier than normal. There was record cold in the midwest and the Great Lakes states. But yet Al Gore continues to rake in millions of dollars every year, playing off of unfounded fears and anti-american sentiment.

Opinions about global warming don't matter. The reality of it is what matters. If its real, we need to deal with it.

In some ways, the science is simple. Does anyone deny that carbon dioxide and methane are greenhouse gasses? You can replicate this experiment in little glass ball. Add CO2 and Methane and it will get hotter from the same amount of energy. Does anyone dispute that CO2 and methane levels are going up in our atmosphere? This can be measured, it as been measured and it is increasing. The only thing in dispute here is how fast wikll global temperatures go up and what will the consequences be?

And besides all that, doesn't anyone remember $4.00 per gallon gasoline and the drive for energy independance? The solutions to global warming are also good choices in terms of our economy and our national security. There is no good reason not to act!

In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, said he had used a “trick” employed by another scientist, Michael Mann, to “hide the decline” in temperatures.....NY Times

Yeah...why would anyone question Al Gore.

If you track the receding of glaciers in Alaska, you will find that they receded SIGNIFICANTLY more in the later part of the last century and the early part of this century than they have in recent years. There is little relationship, if any, between human activity and climate change. Climate changes all the time without any specific cause and effect relationship. We assume that scientists know something when they are only speculating.

All that said, we do need to take better care of the earth because she is our mother. Use the resources of the earth, but don't abuse them.

The first clue that this farce was totally bogus was the full support of that charlatan, Al Gore! Ironically, now the cat is coming out of the bag, this President is too stupid and arrogant to admit that this junk science was just that as he tries his best to bring our sovreignty on a silver platter to those thiefs in Copenhagen!

This ought to make old Al Gore a little nervous. After all his hoax has made him a ton of money.

Ahh yes, must have a controversy, mustn't we. 72 percent of Americans accept that the climate is changing. 28 percent, mostly Republicans for whom the Boy Scout motto, "Be Prepared", seems to be too complicated for them to understand, think 99+ percent of the world's scientists are somehow totally off base. There is no real story here. A 72 percent majority is a pretty strong statement, but CNN and the rest of the scandal mongers must have controversy. That's what sells papers, gets folks excited, raises the price of advertisement time – and that's why I so seldom pay attention to CNN anymore, Watch the BBC, the Newshour on PBS and read your local paper. The cable channels are all about profit, not about providing information.

Worring about Global Warming , Just Grond Obama's Plane one day a week , and park Pelosi's plane permantally. That would save for starters. PLUS , GIVE THAT COST BACK FOR THERE TAX INCREASE. . Most of all keep there mouths shut, an hour a day would also , become a benefit.

Maybe we should vote on Global Warming – and if Conservatives win, Mother Nature will stop it because they are the Religious Right.

What Century are we in?

The truth about this farce is finally coming out. Thank goodness.

Why aren't you mentioning leaked emails from these scientists that apparently have covered up and/or deleted data contradicting global warming theory?

America has become the knuckle dragging Nation that is easy to dupe. I'm sure those same bunch of nay sayers would also be doubting that cigarettes cause cancer if the corporations pumped enough money into the campaign of disbelief... Oh, wait.. that already happened.

If we harm our enviroment, the home that we all live in, will there be anything left to defend? Regardless of your religous beliefs, if we destroy our earth from our own pollution, we will not have anyone else to blame but ourselves. If we keep this up, it is only a matter of time before we start suffering the fate as so many other species that got put on the endangered list because of us. I am 18 years old, and I don't want to see that in my lifetime. I love my home planet, and all of us should love earth enough to take care of the planet that gave us the chance to breathe clean air and live. That's all I have to say, have a nice day to you folks who continue to do nothing to help the planet of which we stand on. My generation would like to thank you for all that you have done. (sarcasm)

if they do not notice the global warming...they are out of mind, are they are very young...never seen any life....or they are just wanting to say to say....that's it....let them go to india....and experience what a warmth is....ok, tell them not to talk rubbish...

If a majority of Americans are swayed towards any point of view ... I will always question their collective judgement, since it is usually based on a gross ignorance of facts ... regardless of the issue.

The "Al Gore Global Green Scam" is now finally and fully out in the open for all to see. "Of course Al invests in Green companies – he is merely putting his money where his mouth is!" Given that he fancies himself as a world political and civic leader who is calling on governments and ex-cronies alike with his fraudulent scheme to game the system, we call him a felony conspirator with criminal conflict of interest.

Arrest this odious thief and put him away forever!

Where is the mention pof the scientist e-mail scandal playing a part in the skepticism? That is the story that should be here instead of the poll.

About 28% of Americans believe dinosaurs lived a couple thousand year's ago and were on Noah's Ark. Do you think it is a coincidence that approximately 28% of Americans approved of George W Bush's job performance even while the economy was crumbling around them, e were stuck in two wars and had an out of control national debt? Is it also a coincidence that approximately 28% of Americans think Sarah Palin would make a fabulous president? I think not.