(global warming news) Obama's Global Warming Straddle - FrontPage magazine.com

The scientist overseeing the research protested that the cooling was "not anything really significant," and that the results shouldn't be interpreted as evidence against warming, but with surface temperatures and water temperatures declining, the case for a radical reining-in of industrial economies has become even weaker than it already was. According to a Pew poll released in the days following Barack Obama's inauguration, Americans rank "dealing with global warming" dead last among 20 policy priorities for this administration–just 30 percent believe it should be a top priority, 8 percentage points less than two years ago, and well behind such concerns as strengthening the military (44 percent), defending the United States against terrorism (76 percent), and strengthening the economy (85 percent). Out of 12 environmental problems Gallup polled, the 37 percent figure put global warming just third from the bottom, ahead of only urban sprawl and acid rain–a term that hasn't made a headline on the front page of the New York Times in nine years. The skeptics may not be winning the debate in the media, but they're "winning the reality" according to Bj

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