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<div><span class="submitted">22 October 09</span> </div>
<div class="title"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/new-pew-center-poll-confirms-effects-climate-confusion-campaign"><font size="6">New Pew Center Poll Confirms The Effects of Climate Confusion Campaign</font></a></div>
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<div>Some pin this decline on the economy, arguing that Americans have other things to worry about and climate change has drifted off their radar screen.
<p>But, as I explained to the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/22/climate-change-us-pew-survey" target="_blank">Guardian newspaper today</a>, "a big part of this problem is this campaign to mislead Americans about climate science. This is a very sophisticated group of people who know how to create doubt and confusion and they have done a very good job of it."</p>
<p>This downturn in public understanding of the climate crisis confirms that the corporate investment in climate confusion is paying a dividend. The public confusion campaigns launched by ACCCE, the Chamber, National Association of Manufacturers, American Petroleum Institute and a host of others, are all deliberately targeted at moving the dial on public opinion.</p>
<p>These Astroturf groups have set a clear and specific goal of muddying the waters, and this poll shows that their strategy is working. Front groups and lobbyists for dirty industry have effectively sown the seeds of confusion within the American public.<br>
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<div><a href="http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming">http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming</a></div>
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<div>October 22, 2009</div>
<h1>Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming</h1>
<div><font size="4">Modest Support for "Cap and Trade" Policy</font></div>
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<div>There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008.
<p>The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades. In April 2008, 71% said there was solid evidence of rising global temperatures.</p>
<p>Over the same period, there has been a comparable decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels. Just 36% say that currently, down from 47% last year. </p>
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<p>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p></div>