http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1885804,00.html
Yet the global response to global warming — one of fits and starts, with more hot air than real focus — doesn't exactly resemble the mobilizing opening scenes of disaster flicks like Armageddon or Deep Impact. Quite the opposite, as fears over the recession grow, climate change may be receding from the public consciousness. A Gallup poll released last week found that a record-high 41% of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated in the news media, up from 30% in 2006. Though a majority of Americans are still a "fair amount" or a "great deal" concerned about climate change, that proportion has hardly changed in recent years, even as the preponderance of scientific evidence has increasingly supported the danger of global warming and the speed with which it is occurring. The asteroid is out there, and yet we remain reluctant to heed the warnings. Why?
Yet the global response to global warming — one of fits and starts, with more hot air than real focus — doesn't exactly resemble the mobilizing opening scenes of disaster flicks like Armageddon or Deep Impact. Quite the opposite, as fears over the recession grow, climate change may be receding from the public consciousness. A Gallup poll released last week found that a record-high 41% of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated in the news media, up from 30% in 2006. Though a majority of Americans are still a "fair amount" or a "great deal" concerned about climate change, that proportion has hardly changed in recent years, even as the preponderance of scientific evidence has increasingly supported the danger of global warming and the speed with which it is occurring. The asteroid is out there, and yet we remain reluctant to heed the warnings. Why?
