Two-thirds of world's population worried about global warming

Up to two-thirds of people around the world are worried about the threats posed by global warming, an extensive survey has found.

More than 60,000 people in 57 countries were questioned during the survey carried out for Gallup International for International Earth Day.

When presented with the statement, “Global warming is having a serious impact now in the area where I live,” 66 per cent of respondents said they agreed.

The sentiment was strongest in the Asia Pacific region where it was shared by 78 per cent of people. The figure was 73 per cent in Latin America and 66 per cent in Western Europe.

In North America only 38 per cent felt there was a serious impact close to home but 62 per cent expressed concern about global warming.

Scepticism among the populations of individual countries was strongest in Iceland where 59 per cent of people refused to believe global warming was having a serious impact around them.

Other countries where scepticism was strong were Germany with 51 per cent denying serious impacts near their homes, Russia (47 per cent), Norway (43), the UK (41) and the United States (40).

Conversely, Western Europe and North America were the regions where individuals did the most to reduce the impacts of climate change.

Comments

[bill]

The author interviewed 60,000 people world-wide, not 4 out of 6 billion people, cannot represent 2/3 of the world.

The real problem in our world today is population explosion as physics professor Albert A. Bartlett's 'Bacterium in a jar paradigm' some 20+ years ago.

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Regards
Bill

[Clif]

The "two-thirds of people around the world ... worried about the threats posed by global warming" are not worried about temperatures rising or sea-level rising --- they are worried about the threat from the environment-wackoes and their carbon taxes; and turning the world's food supply into bio-fuel... They've already killed millions by banning DDT and now they want to starve a 100 million more...

[Josh]

There are more important things to worry about than the supposed threat of anthropogenic global warming.

There is no scientific link between CO2 and average global temperatures. Without that, the entire theory that humans are somehow responsible for the rise in global temperature is a sham. Nobody wants to talk about the sun's role in any of this.

We humans are responsible, and if we don't act now there we be an eco-apocalypse of massive proportions! All you have to do if give up some of your liberty, turn off your lights, and pay your carbon tax!

What a load of bunk...