The war between the global warming pollsters is on. Last week, in a NYT op-ed that was widely discussed in the media, Stanford's Jon Krosnick asserted that
national surveys released during the last eight months have been interpreted as showing that fewer and fewer Americans believe that climate change is real, human-caused and threatening to people. But a closer look at these polls and a new survey by my Political Psychology Research Group show just the opposite: huge majorities of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it.
Not so fast. Yesterday, in a NYT letter to the editor that seems to have gone virtually unnoticed in the blogosphere, the Pew's Andrew Kohut says that Krosnick's survey is marred by faulty methodology. This latest poll, according to Kohut, used words that encourged a ...
