The Heartland Institute is funded by companies that have an interest in downplaying climate change. They want to rein in the EPA too (http://heartland.org/citizens-petiti...tection-agency) which they see as a waste of money because it only serves to hurt their interests. The Heartland institute also interviewed television presenters, not scientists.
The AMS survey (which did survey scientists, as stated in the beginning of the paper) linked states that (on page 5 and 6):
- 89% of respondents stated that they believe that Climate Change is happening
- 59% of those stated that they believe that Climate Change is caused by humans and another 11% said that Climate Change is affected by both human activity and natural causes.
- 6% indicated that Climate Change is not caused or affected by human activity
- 76% of respondents stated that Climate Change will be "very harmful" or "somewhat harmful"
- 30% of respondents stated that they were "very worried" about climate change and 42% said that they were "somewhat worried" about it.
the third link:
- "We find that virtually all respondents (99.4%) agree that the climate is changing."
- 36% of respondents believe that human activity is a main driving force in Climate Change
- 24% of respondents believe that Climate Change is a wholly natural phenomenon
- 17% of respondents believe that Climate Change is influenced by both human activity and natural causes
- 10% of respondents believe that the real cause is unknown
- 5% of respondents believe that Climate Change is influenced by both human activity and natural causes, but doesn't affect their personal lives even if it may pose a problem to society in general
- thus 58% (more than half) of respondents either believe that human activity is the main driving force in Climate Change, or that it is influenced by both human activity and natural causes
- the use of labels such as "Comply with Kyoto", "Fatalists" and "Regulation activists" shows a certain bias on the part of the writer.
Your sources are hardly backing your hypothesis up.
That is something worth investigating, however there have been quite a few studies published since then.b) Why some of the supporters of climate change have been trying to suppress data that could prove wrong the 1990 study on the effects of climate change? (http://www.theguardian.com/environme...%20body%20link)
So you are in agreement with 6% of the respondents to the AMS study and 10% of the respondents to the sagepub study you linked. You do realize that this means your view is not representative of the scientific community surveyed in the studies you linked as evidence to back your opinion up, don't you?I do think climate change is happening, as it has done for millions of years. Where I find doubt is in the extent that mankind has exasperated the effects.