Public concern over climate change is on the wane, especially in the United States. ‘The Pew Research Center released its latest poll of public attitudes on global warming. On its face, the news was not good: Belief that global warming is occurring had declined from 71 percent in April of 2008 to 56 percent in October — an astonishing drop in just 18 months. The belief that global warming is human-caused declined from 47 percent to 36 percent.’ These Pew statistics are consistent with the findings of a Gallup poll.

The findings on the decline of public concern over global warming are significant: increase in the number of people who believed that global warming news are exaggerated, and decline in the number of people who believed that the effects of global warming had already begun.

’The current Pew survey is the latest in a series of studies suggesting that Al Gore probably had a good deal more effect upon elite opinion than public opinion.’
Maybe, Al Gore’s role in the partisan polarization of the climate change issue has turned climate change from an environmental to a highly-political matter.

Will the recent leak of emails exchanged among self-serving climate experts who manipulated climate data to prove their theories contribute further to the decline in climate change alarm? Have people, especially Americans, finally realized that climate change is a hoax?

Too much of something is a bad thing, and we don’t mean carbon dioxide emissions here.

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Via environment360