| rocketpig said: This is kind of a weird survey. I'm not quite sure how I'd answer because I don't see them differentiating between climate change and "global warming", which thanks to the media has been inextricably linked to man-made sources. I think the wording could use a little work here. |
Well, Gallup is basicly the king of polling in the US, and they have been asking these questions for over ten years. Green House Effect, Global Warming, Climate Change all refer to the same thing here. "Someone" keeps changing the terminology because they like certain names better.
Climate Change is too vague a term. Climates change, and there is no arguement in that. We used to be in an ice age 10,000 years ago, so climates do obviously change. But what they are really asking is if increased man made CO2 levels is what is causing climate change, and if it is getting warmer and that sea levels will rise. Just calling it climate change does not imply any of that.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
