Pew, Gallup Skew Global Warming Opinion Polls With the Phrase, "From What You've Read or Heard..."

[wtmusic]

"Politicians and pundits and the public have all been told by the media and others that public belief in global warming has dropped sharply. Except that it hasn’t, as polling by Stanford and Ipsos and Reuters make clear.

Yes, other polls, notably by Gallup and Pew, do seem to seem to show a sharp drop. But in exclusive interviews with Climate Progress, two leading experts on climate, public opinion and media coverage — Jon Krosnick and Max Boykoff — explain what’s really going on.

The big apparent drop in some polls is almost certainly due to the combination of the collapse in media coverage of global warming and pollsters asking a deeply flawed question."

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/15/360335/experts-debunk-polls-americans-believe-in-global-warming/

[kristopher]

1. You must have been intent on ignoring this...

Posted by kristopher on Thu Nov-03-11 12:18 PM
2012 ELECTION SURVEY: Congress, White House Focus On Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power Is Out Of Touch With Views Of Mainstream America

If Washington had to choose between fossil fuel/nuclear subsidies and wind/solar subsidies, "clean energy" aid would get support from three times more Americans than fossil fuel/nuclear energy subsidies. Only a bit more than one in 10 American adults (13 percent) - including just 20 percent of Republicans, 9 percent of Independents, 10 percent of Democrats, and only 24 percent of Tea Party supporters - are in favor of concentrating federal energy subsidies on the coal, nuclear power and natural gas industries. When it comes to focusing federal subsidies on wind and solar, 38 percent of all Americans are supportive -- about three times the support level for fossil fuel/nuclear subsidies. Only about one in 10 Americans (13 percent) - including just 26 percent of Tea Party supporters -- believes that "no energy source should receive federal subsidies."

• Fossil fuel subsidies are opposed by Americans on a bipartisan basis. Six in 10 Americans - including a strikingly uniform 59 percent of Republicans, 65 percent of Independents, 59 percent of Democrats, and 59 percent of Tea Party members -- oppose "federal subsidies for oil and gas, coal, natural gas and other fossil fuel companies."

• Nuclear reactor loan guarantees are opposed by Americans on a bipartisan basis. More than two out of three Americans (67 percent) - including 65 percent of Republicans, 66 percent of Independents, 68 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Tea Party backers - disagree that "taxpayers and ratepayers should provide taxpayer-backed loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power reactors in the United States through proposed tens of billions in federal loan guarantees for new reactors."

• Most Americans want the U.S. to shift federal loan guarantee support from nuclear power to wind and solar energy.About seven in 10 Americans (71 percent) - including 55 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of Independents, 84 percent of Democrats, and almost half (47 percent) of Tea Party backers -- strongly or somewhat support "a shift of federal loan-guarantee support for energy away from nuclear reactors and towards clean renewable energy such as wind and solar."...

More of press release at:
http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/media/110311release.cfm

Download survey results here:
http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/media/pdfs/110311%20CSI%202012%20Energy%20Policy%20Survey%20final3.pdf

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=315870&mesg_id=315870

Even when exactly the same thing as your OP was specifically pointed out:

Amazing. Polling using questions the right hasn't been programmed for finds that most people in the US (83%) actually are convinced that climate change is real, and no one here gives a damn.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=315870&mesg_id=316109

I guess you only like part of the message...

[saras]

2. I don't get the fake conflict - both posts entirely agree.

The poll question in the OPs poll asks a straightforward question and gets a straightforward answer. It asks whether the rumors they see and hear in the media about global warming suggest it is real or not. It's a different question than whether the person being polled thinks global warming is real or not.

People think it's real, they think the media tells them it's not. They're right in both cases.