Spencer, IA: (Mar. 11) - A new Gallup poll shows that a growing number of American think global warming worries are exaggerated, as more people also doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur.
The poll, conducted last week, indicates a reversal in public sentiment. Forty-eight percent of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated. That’s up from 41 percent last year and 31 percent in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.
The result comes on the heels of well-publicized reports that some of the details of scientific findings that went into international global warming reports were either flawed or exaggerated.
The United States has made a non-binding pledge to seek a 17 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020. But, without legislation from Congress, that goal is unlikely to be met.
And analysts say that, with congressional elections less than eight months away, many lawmakers will be hesitant to take on controversial energy and environment legislation.
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