Jeff wrote:
hpeer wrote:

Something else interesting is a recent Yale/George Mason report on
American attitudes towards climate change. It seems that the deniers
fall into a fairly well defined demographic:
Well paid
Home owners
Older
Well educated
White
Men

research.yale.edu/environment/uploads/CCAmericanMind.pdf

You might ask yourself if your opinion is because of your reasoned and
enlightened thoughts - or because of the group you belong to.


Fascinating report; it will take some time to go through, it but I think
you're mis-reading it. The only demographics I saw were with regard to
ALL respondents, not just the deniers.

Ah,my mistake. Similar report by Yale. The attached URL should take
you to the one with the demographics. They are in the back end. What I
found most interesting was the comparisons of TRUST. These guys don't
trust anyone excepting, perhaps, family and friends.

environment.yale.edu/uploads/6Americas2009.pdf

If fact, the report seems to be
saying the the overwhelming majority believe that Global Climate Change
is real and something should be done about it, while the deniers are a
small minority, under 10% in most of the categories.

Correct, however almost no one IS doing anything about it. This comes
out in the new report.

Since almost any
national survey will have about 15% supporting any outlandish claim (we
faked the moon landings, Area 51 aliens, etc.) its a little hard to
prove anything by looking at the demographics of a small group of deniers.

Agree. I was not trying to PROVE anything other than to ask the
gentlemen to question the source of their beliefs. Are they considered
opinions or because that is what their cohort things - peer pressure.