Decline in Americans' Belief in Global Warming
A polar bear on melting ice. (Photo courtesy of Joel Garlich-Miller, USFWS)
Host: Rebecca WilliamsReport date: 03/01/2011
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For the past decade, researchers have been studying what Americans believe about climate change. For several years, more and more of the public has agreed that climate change is taking place. But recently, the number of people who believe climate change is happening... is falling.
For the past decade, researchers have been studying what Americans believe about climate change. For several years, more and more of the public has agreed that climate change is taking place. But recently, the number of people who believe climate change is happening... is falling.
Barry Rabe is a professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He’s the author of a new report that draws on the latest public opinion surveys, and he joins me to talk about this.
Professor Rabe, your report found fewer people believe the Earth is warming. What’s happening?
Read the report
Read the report
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, On Tuesday March 1, 2011, 3:42 pm EST
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Which only goes to show how bad and how widespread the problem is.
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Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'
Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
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