More Americans are understanding that climate change is real

From New York Times on 01/22/19 by John SchwartzClick on image to enlarge"A record number of Americans understand that climate change is real, according to a new survey, and they are increasingly worried about its effects in their lives today.Some 73 percent of Americans polled late last year said that global warming was happening, the report found, a jump of 10 percentage points from 2015 and three points since last March.The rise in the number of Americans who say global warming is personally important to them was even sharper, jumping nine percentage points since March to 72 percent, another record over the past decade."For more informationclick here.Editor's note:It is a sign of hope that more Americans are becoming "reality based" instead of being duped by "fake news" and false beliefs promulgated primarily by politicians who have been elected due to financial support from fossil fuel companies into believing lies, fabrications, equivocatons, and disengenuous nonsense.Exxon Mobile and other fossil fuel companies have known for years that the carbon emissions created by the burning of their products is affecting the climate of the planet earth. These companies, fearing a negative impact on their financial revenues, have kept this information not only secret, but have propogandized the American public and their elected policy makers into believing the opposite.With the awareness of the American citizens rising to the truth of the matter, we can hope, working...

Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs