Almost one-third of Europeans falsely believe that the polar ice caps have already melted, according to a poll published Tuesday.
The poll found that 26 percent of Europeans believe the Arctic Ocean is already ice-free in the summer, and 30 percent believe global warming has already warmed up Earth’s oceans by 2 degrees Celsius. Neither of these things has actually happened, and climate scientists project that the earliest these events could occur would be the year 2100.
“This is hugely disturbing because if these changes have already occurred in their minds, what incentive do these citizens have to demand action to prevent such changes?” Dr. Carlos Duarte, the co-author of the poll, said in a press statement.
The poll also found that 54 percent of Europeans believe humans play a minor role or no role at all in global warming. Europeans tend to be more concerned with environmental issues that don’t have much to do with global warming, the poll found.
“A surprising number are poorly informed, and even misinformed revealing a major failure at communicating climate change science to the public,” Duarte said.
Scientists with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the U.S. Marine Biological Laboratory conducted the poll, which was published in the academic journal “Frontiers in Marine Science.”
Duarte surveyed 10,000 citizens across 10 European countries in a first-of-its-kind poll. He found that citizens from Germany, Italy and Spain claimed to be the most informed on environmental issues, while those from the Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Estonia claimed to be least informed. Young people were the most likely to be skeptical about disastrous global warming consequences.
“We are at a time when decisions made will have irreversible consequences and this level of misinformation is a huge vulnerability for society in general and for future generations,” Duarte said. “The survey calls for a major shift in the way we communicate climate change with far less emphasis on what changes may occur in the future, as these can be misinterpreted by the public, and we need a greater involvement of university scientists.”
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This is what makes the scam possible …… the masses are asses.
And these same Euroweenies probibly think the worlds flat and that it sits on the backs of four elephants that sit on the back of a big big turtle that walks slowly around the sun and the stars are little lamps lit by the sky people at night and blown out at daytime and their collecting unicorn poop
It is hard to understand, how someone like you feels you’re some how more intelligent by name calling.
I can understand if you are 11, but surely not an adult.
@rak00l
Dude you go on about name calling and then lay down a personal insult. Get a grip of yourself there or people will think you’re some sort of whiny whining snowflake.
Get a Life Rakooi dont be a whining little snowflake we get from these leftists run campuses
This is precisely why the eco-left always chooses the most remote and foreboding places on earth to make their wildest claims. Nobody ever goes there! It’s easy to lie about a place that nobody ever sees – a place where we have no frame of personal reference to see changes with our own eyes.
Of course all this presupposes that climates never change naturally, and any change that does occur is disastrous – the result of free market capitalism…