Mansfield Survey Finds Drop In Global Warming Believers In PA

The number of people believing global warming is a problem dropped 5 percent in the last year, according to the 2009 Mansfield University Survey released this week.

 

"This year, the number of firm believers in global warming declined to 65 percent," says Dr. Timothy Madigan, associate professor of sociology and co-director of the annual survey of adult Pennsylvanians.

 

"Last year it was over 70 percent and had been rising steadily since 1999 when we first asked the question. At the same time, the number of people who do not believe in global warming rose to 28 percent. This matches the height of disbelief first recorded by our annual survey on this topic a decade ago," Dr. Madigan says.