Following extensive misinformation campaigns from corporate misanthropes and the GOP, American support for the veracity of climate change is now approaching an all time high. Awareness about global warming is almost equal to the highest levels of support achieved in 2008. Although it may seem like it has taken an eternity, the American people are once again waking up to the reality of climate change. This view is supported by two major surveys which indicate that Americans are making the connection between extreme weather and global warming.
Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a survey [PDF] last fall in which they asked about 1,000 people whether there is solid evidence that the world has been warming during the past four decades. More than two thirds (67 percent) agreed with that statement. To put this in context only slightly more than half (52 percent) of Americans agreed with that statement in 2010. The 2013 surveys are approaching the 72 percent mark that was recorded in 2008 before the onslaught of a nation wide propaganda campaigned intended to deny the veracity of anthropogenic global warming.
Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a survey [PDF] last fall in which they asked about 1,000 people whether there is solid evidence that the world has been warming during the past four decades. More than two thirds (67 percent) agreed with that statement. To put this in context only slightly more than half (52 percent) of Americans agreed with that statement in 2010. The 2013 surveys are approaching the 72 percent mark that was recorded in 2008 before the onslaught of a nation wide propaganda campaigned intended to deny the veracity of anthropogenic global warming.
