Gallup questions miss the mark. Worry is kinda after the fact, non-positive point. How about should government discontinue financing corporate plunder of the energy sector, enforce the MPG for passenger cars instituted during the Jimmy Carter era, would a Katrina size storm in your neighborhood worry you, Will global warming effect the lifestyle of the media owners/economic top 1% of the population as much as it might effect you?

This informative poll helped me better understand American attitudes towards global warming. The methodology appears sound, and the interpretation is quite reasonable and fair.

Not the best I've seen from Gallup. I think this survey conflates the severity of effects from a certain amount of warming with the probability that that much warming will occur, by not asking questions to separate the two. It does bring in the time dimension, which is valuable. The context contains some claims without evidence, like "given the Bush administration's general downplaying of the problem".

someone needs to continue this story with others which place the information here in the context of comparing the information with that of other countries. and, to do more in-depth interviewing of some respondents so that we can better understand ourselves and how we perceive such an important issue. Is it simply that it is already a politicized issue or does it go to something more about who we are?

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"One has to wonder why Americans don't demand more political action on global warming...." Maybe because they are smarter than the media. The media has been harranging on this subject with only one side presented and yet the public isn't totally convinced. You can fool all the people..........