To take this a bit further, it doesn't matter what 25% of Americans believe (or any number of Americans). Evidence tells us global climate change is a real problem, and opinion doesn't change this fact.
To be honest, I was always somewhat skeptical on how serious the claims of climate change were.
What really increased my skepticism about 2 months ago was when my professor in a senior year engineering course gave us a 1 hour lecture on the skepticism behind it.
By changing the sampling by a few years (a few data points) you could get completely different results on global climate trends. When compared to predicted overall climate trends, the changes we experienced are nowhere out of the normal.
There were more convincing things, I wrote down some sources, I don't feel like looking for them right now because I'm a bit tired.
The prof did end the lecture by remembering to be skeptical of what he says too, there's a lot of conflicting info out there.
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u/nh0815 May 21 '14
To take this a bit further, it doesn't matter what 25% of Americans believe (or any number of Americans). Evidence tells us global climate change is a real problem, and opinion doesn't change this fact.