Among the more interesting questions asked in the the just-released Yale poll on "Climate change in the American mind"is the one that shows us how much the country trusts various sources of information on the subject. Keeping reading to find out who tops the list, and who is on the bottom:
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But... don't they just hear from those selected scientists that are given more exposure through the mainstream news media?
Maybe we should start sending scientists door-to-door....
The big question is: which scientists? Fred Singer is technically a scientist.
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Let's all do this, no matter where you are! Saturday, 28 March 2009. Lights off from 8.30pm to 9.30pm!
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Weird - Barack Obama is the second most "strongly distrusted" source (after corporations), but rates higly on "strongly trusted" as well.