Wednesday, April 18, 2012

As extreme weather events increase, so does acceptance of climate science

Over the past few years, there has been an unusual amount of extreme weather all over the world. From record breaking temperatures to Hurricane Irene, the US has also been affected by this strange weather. A recent survey of Americans showed that the majority of them say that the weather is getting worse and most of those people blame it on global warming. A decade ago, most Americans either didn’t believe in global warming or thought it was a problem that wouldn’t affect them in their lifetime. Now people are starting to realize that it is currently happening and we have to do something about it. The results of the survey showed that 72% of the people said that global warming made the last winter unusually warm. 69% said it also caused the record snowfall in 2010 and 2011. This shows that people are finally realizing that this has the potential to become a real problem and they might start trying to fix it before it brings serious consequences.

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