An interesting poll on climate change from Yale University has been released. This poll, based on data collected in the USA, shows a number of things, perhaps the most interesting being that people who believe in climate change themselves is 63%, whilst those who believe there is scientific consensus on it is 41%.
Data shows responses to a number of climate related questions at the national, state, congressional district and county level.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @02:08PM
I wonder what kind of numbers these guys would get...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @02:14PM
Public opinion of a very well-established science vs. public opinion of a very young science?
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Thursday April 23 2015, @03:26PM
Public opinion of a very well-established science vs. public opinion of a very young science?
So you mean gravity being young science? Because we certainly know hell of a lot less about gravity than about global warming. Yes, I know what I'm talking about here.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 24 2015, @03:44PM
So you mean gravity being young science? Because we certainly know hell of a lot less about gravity than about global warming. Yes, I know what I'm talking about here.
No, you don't. Currently, the most important parameter in climate research, the long term temperature forcing of a doubling of CO2 is unknown to about a factor of three difference between low and high estimates. I can set up a tabletop experiment with a long hallway to nail down the local force of gravity to a factor of ten better than that.
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Thursday April 23 2015, @03:33PM
Gravity science is a very young science?
What gave you that idea?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @06:06PM
Science still hasn't figured out how gravity works.
"Unambiguous detection of individual gravitons, though not prohibited by any fundamental law, is impossible with any physically reasonable detector."
"However, experiments to detect gravitational waves, which may be viewed as coherent states of many gravitons, are underway"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton#Experimental_observation [wikipedia.org]