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Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Matt Nisbet points to a new Pew Survey about global warming showing very little change in public opinion on the subject in recent years. It seems that An Inconvenient Truth didn't really cause a radical change in public opinion, after all. (Of course, it does appear to have brought climate change to the attention of media elites, which is probably more important than general public opinion, in the...
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David Fiderer (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
George Bush's approval rating among Democrats is 1%. Among Republicans it's 67%. And among Independents it's 14%, according to the American Research Group poll last April. Every other poll shows substantially the same partisan disparity. News outlets talk about Bush's approval levels approaching "Nixonian" levels, but they shy away from to acknowledging the obvious - that the GOP has become marginalized...
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Page 3.14 (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Despite An Inconvenient Truth 's Oscar win and Al Gore's Nobel, public opinion of global warming has changed little since the film's release in 2006. As Matt Nisbet recently pointed out : "Conventional wisdom pegged Gore's film and media campaign as changing the nature of the debate in the public's mind, but unfortunately this interpretation doesn't hold up to the data." Even more surprising is that...
