Climate Change Not a Top Worry in U.S.

[BDKJMU]

And neither is immigration. "Illegal Immigration","Quality of the Environment", and "Climate Change" ranked 12th, 13th, and 14th respectively, out of 15 items.

Climate Change Not a Top Worry in U.S.
U.S. concerns with the quality of the environment dropped in 2014


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[GannonFan]

Hard to see that it would be. Other than warmer summers and colder winters, it doesn't really affect us enough to get worried about it, at least yet. Throw in the fact that we're still sputtering to recover from the recession 6 years ago and you can see why economics would be more on people's minds.

[ASUG8]

Given that our top scientists can't seem to agree if it exists much less completely target the causes, I'm not surprised that Joe Wal-Mart hasn't really let this become top of mind over how he's going to find a job or what's happening to his tax burden.

[kalm]

Given that our top scientists can't seem to agree if it exists much less completely target the causes, I'm not surprised that Joe Wal-Mart hasn't really let this become top of mind over how he's going to find a job or what's happening to his tax burden.

I thought they a pretty much agreed on the change part?

[ASUG8]

Given that our top scientists can't seem to agree if it exists much less completely target the causes, I'm not surprised that Joe Wal-Mart hasn't really let this become top of mind over how he's going to find a job or what's happening to his tax burden.

I thought they a pretty much agreed on the change part?

It's changing, and it always has. I read someplace we'll likely have an El Nino this year which will change things for a period of time. We had record snowfall in the US, Australia had record heat. Pretty light hurricane seasons the last few years. But weather events in isolation aren't climate. I've read articles going both ways regarding the impact of humans vs. natural climate change, and I've emerged unsure so I can imagine that others might be also. We're moving toward less CFC's, less fossil fuels for power generation, more electric or hybrid vehicles, solar/wind power (albeit inefficient) so I think the US is doing things to mitigate the human impact but we can't do crap about the natural side.

Throw in population growth - more people = more oxygen consumed/more CO2 expelled, more demand for electricity, more demand for vehicles in developing countries using fossil fuels, deforestation reducing the amount of O2 conversion, fresh water demand from these people combined with natural droughts......no doubt humans have a hand in it, but there are natural climate cycles at work as well.

[CitadelGrad]

Given that our top scientists can't seem to agree if it exists much less completely target the causes, I'm not surprised that Joe Wal-Mart hasn't really let this become top of mind over how he's going to find a job or what's happening to his tax burden.

I thought they a pretty much agreed on the change part?

Well, it became climate "change" after it started to become clear that the arguments for anthropogenic global warming were pretty weak. Of course there is climate change. The global climate has always been changing at some rate, and always will.

[93henfan]

It's human nature to care more about yourself than your offspring 100 years from now who have to put up with all the damage you've created.

So of course people are more worried about their bank accounts than global warming/climate change.

[Ibanez]

Given that our top scientists can't seem to agree if it exists much less completely target the causes, I'm not surprised that Joe Wal-Mart hasn't really let this become top of mind over how he's going to find a job or what's happening to his tax burden.

Americans want the freedom to purchase a gas guzzler and their freedom to bitch about the cost of gas. They don't care about science, results or what sort of planet they are leaving for their grandchildren.

[Ibanez]

It's human nature to care more about yourself than your offspring 100 years from now who have to put up with all the damage you've created.

So of course people are more worried about their bank accounts than global warming/climate change.

My comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but 93 is right.

[Chizzang]

I'm not even sure I know how to muster up a worry about climate change..?
I thought about it for a minute and I couldn't find a way to arrange it in my brain where "worry" was involved in the thought process

I understand the issues
I just can't formulate a worry

[Ivytalk]

Like worrying about being hit by an asteroid...or by a massive solar flare that reaches out and roasts us.

[bluehenbillk]

Climate change is pretty much where I'd put it, really what should it leap over? Personally I was surprised energy is so low but I guess people are just used to being focked over by Big Oil.

[BlueHen86]

I thought they a pretty much agreed on the change part?

Well, it became climate "change" after it started to become clear that the arguments for anthropogenic global warming were pretty weak. Of course there is climate change. The global climate has always been changing at some rate, and always will.

True, but we still need to research it a best as possible. Are we causing it? Are we accelerating it? Can we stop it? Should we stop it?

We shouldn't bury our heads in the sand just because the climate has always changed.

[CID1990]

Get back to me when global warming affects my online pron or makes my iPhone stop working

[mainejeff]

We need to bring this back to basics.........we need clean air to breath and clean water to drink. The rest is just gravy.