Is it true most americans dont believe in global warming?

Question

they are also doing nothing to help the environment.. u.s.a is one of the largest, if not the largest producer of green house gasses in the world.......

Answer 1

China is the largest and getting bigger by the day producer of green house gases.

Answer 2

I don't know about most Americans but I certainly do.  Actually, I believe China is now the largest...

Answer 3

No. I'd say about 80-85% of Americans accept anthropogenic global warming theory. It's just a small, very vocal minority who make it seem otherwise.

As to whether Americans are actually doing something *about* climate change, well, that's another story.

Answer 4

I'm sorry, we are too busy being the engine that drives the world economy and feeding the third world to worry about less important issues.

Answer 5

We are doing more to correct this than many other countries combine. China leads the way in abuse of the earth as does Mexico City.

Answer 6

It is a vocal minority that don't agree. It appears more than most other countries though.

There appears to be very little being done in the US to help the environment in general.  The cars are bigger and there is little to no recycling.

macbeats: Thanks for proving the asker's point.  What oil company do you work for?

Answer 7

As an American, I am VERY concerned and frightened about global warming because it is happening now and reaching the 'tipping point'.  In addition, I am outraged that the U.S. government (the Bush Administration) is doing basically nothing about global warming and is in cahoots with global warming deniers and industries such as Exxon Mobil.

     I know others who are very concerned about global warming too.  Unfortunately, there are those who have been misinformed by dirty energy companies like coal) or not informed at all (by the U.S. news media) about global warming.  Not everyone has seen Al Gore's Academy Award winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth" (which EVERYONE should) and have no idea the grave seriousness of the issue and that it is happening NOW.

Answer 8

I would say it's split close to the middle.

There is compelling evidence on both sides. (not fact)

The problem is that scientists on both sides that have very different opinions. Both sides all generally agree that the earth is definitely still warming now. They just strongly disagree on who and/or what is causing it.

Global warming is the prediction from a large number of Scientists that Humans are causing the earths climate and GHG's to climb beyond what would occur naturally. They generally contend that it will lead to the Destruction of our Planet from AGW(Anthropogenic Global Warming).

There is also a large number of Scientists that predict that the earth is simply in a warming cycle and that we humans have a small effect (if any) on the climate changes. They generally do not refer to this warming as Global Warming.

Even though technically it is.

They do not claim the doom & gloom but both sides agree we MUST recycle when possible and conserve our natural resources and preserve our natural habitat.

The term global warming is more of a political term and is misleading. For the most part everyone agrees that we are warming up gradually the big and I mean big question is why and what and/or who is causing it?

ANSWER TO YOUR LAST QUESTION:

There is a lot of scientific information available. There is evidence that the earth is warming, but no real scientific fact to support why it is.

Most articles from both sides are just articles that base little on fact and more on short term evidence.

I think for the most part, the discussion on (Global Warming) is much like our modern day court system. Both sides just try to prove their side with hundred of websites all claiming to disprove the other, or no real proof. Both sides have extreme activists. Money and politics are major players, and the right thing or the moral thing to do is not high on the priorities list.

The only difference from our court system is that the global warming issue has no short term answer that would be equivalent to jury and /or Judge.. only time holds our future or fate.

I would keep in mind that either side may be found to be wrong.

I believe we have a responsibility to conserve energy, preserve our environment and recycle everything that is feasibly possible.

I do not believe that we are causing a doom & gloom warming catastrophe. I do know that we need to prepare now by conserving energy, preserving nature and preparing for the next climate change (whether it continues to heat up or we start into another cooling cycle).

You can generally tell the AGWers apart they tend to use terms like never, always, refuse, destroy and disaster. The use of these terms show a very closed minded person.

Answer 9

No, it's not true.  The USA has a higher percentage of people who don't believe in man-made global warming than most other countries, but we're around 70-80% acceptance.

Answer 10

Hard to believe when I'm sitting here in single digit temperatures, as is most of the US currently. Don't make sense to me.