Efforts to support global climate-change falls: Poll

[bijou]

PARIS - There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to findings of a poll of 12,000 citizens in 11 countries, including Canada.

Results of the poll were released this week in advance of the start of a major international conference in Poland where delegates are considering steps toward a new international climate-change treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

... Less than half of those surveyed, or 47 per cent, said they were prepared to make personal lifestyle changes to reduce carbon emissions, down from 58 per cent last year.

Only 37 per cent said they were willing to spend "extra time" on the effort, an eight-point drop.

And only one in five respondents - or 20 per cent - said they'd spend extra money to reduce climate change. That's down from 28 per cent a year ago.

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Looks like people are wising up to the man-made global warming scam.

[Chris_]

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Looks like people are wising up to the man-made global warming scam.

I have said from the start that it was a fad.  It's about as useful as a pet rock.  Too bad Prince Albert made so much money off of it.

[Ptarmigan]

It's just a religion how I see it.

[Eupher]

I have said from the start that it was a fad.  It's about as useful as a pet rock.  Too bad Prince Albert made so much money off of it.

My pet rock makes a great paperweight.

 

[rich_t]

My pet rock makes a great paperweight.

 

Mine died.  I buried it.

 

[AllosaursRus]

Mine died.  I buried it.

 

Threw mine at the stinkin' cat that kept "sprayin" my screen door!

[Baruch Menachem]

Never bought into global warming or pet rocks.  Well, I picked up a really cool peice of obsidian out in LaGrande back when I was in grade school.  I still have it 35 years later.  But Global Warming is kind of hard to give much credit to when you are just sitting down on the seat of your bike on a december morning.  Pet Rocks will be around longer than Global Warming.