{"id":478169,"date":"2010-03-26T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6779214069940998455.post-2323002456587739345"},"modified":"2010-03-26T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:03:52","slug":"the-reported-rise-in-us-climate-scepticism-has-been-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/478169","title":{"rendered":"The reported rise in US climate scepticism has been exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis suggests that US commentators have been confusing the public&#8217;s priority on dealing quickly with jobs and the economy with a drop-off in belief about climate change happening.<\/p>\n<div>In fact:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>75% of Americans believe that the world\u2019s temperatures have probably been going up;<\/li>\n<li>Public confidence in what scientists say about the environment has remained constant over the last few years with 70% of respondents trusting scientists a lot or moderate amount;<\/li>\n<li>More people believe that weather has been relatively cooler and more stable in 2008 and 2009 compared to previous years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6779214069940998455-2323002456587739345?l=blog.seankidney.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis suggests that US commentators have been confusing the public&#8217;s priority on dealing quickly with jobs and the economy with a drop-off in belief about climate change happening. In fact:&nbsp; 75% of Americans believe that the world\u2019s temperatures have probably been going up; Public confidence in what scientists say about the environment has remained constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}