{"id":52,"date":"2005-10-03T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=52"},"modified":"2005-11-04T17:34:51","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T23:34:51","slug":"not-as-dumb-as-we-so-often-seem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/not-as-dumb-as-we-so-often-seem\/","title":{"rendered":"not as dumb as we (so often) seem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beliefs About Climate Change Hold Steady<\/a>
\nPoll Shows Most <\/p>\n

Americans Doubt Hurricanes Are Linked to Global Warming
\nBy Richard Morin, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

A majority of Americans <\/p>\n

believe Earth’s atmosphere is heating up, but they doubt that global warming is to blame for the deadly storms that have struck the <\/p>\n

United States this hurricane season, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.<\/p>\n

The survey found that 56 percent believed that <\/p>\n

global warming is occurring, whereas 40 percent said they were not convinced. That is unchanged from a poll conducted in April, before <\/p>\n

the hurricane season, which suggests that hurricanes Katrina and Rita did not substantially alter the public’s view on climate change. <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The new poll found that relatively few Americans saw the recent storms as God’s work, and only a fraction of those said the <\/p>\n

storms were divine punishment.<\/p>\n

About one in four Americans — 23 percent — viewed the storms as “deliberate acts of God.” Among <\/p>\n

those who saw a divine hand at work this hurricane season, only 8 percent believed that God sent the storms to punish sinners. About half <\/p>\n

said the storms were intended as a “warning,” but one in seven viewed them as tests of faith. Evangelical Christians were only slightly <\/p>\n

more likely than the general public to see hurricanes as acts of God or to view them as a divine punishment.<\/p>\n

A total of 1,019 <\/p>\n

randomly selected adults were interviewed by telephone Sept. 23 to 27. The margin of sampling error for the overall results is plus or <\/p>\n

minus three percentage points.<\/p>\n

The Deluge – Complete Coverage of <\/p>\n

Hurricane Katrina — Beliefnet.com<\/a> [mjh: a less scientific poll of “believers”]<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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