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Even in Utah, few deny climate change
PALO ALTO, Calif. — John Daley, a reporter for KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, told a group of journos at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference Friday that even in red-state Utah, people are more than willing to warm up to the idea of climate change.
Daley, joining reporters from Colorado Springs, Omaha and the Florida Panhandle, was speaking during a panel discussion on environmental reporting in conservative markets, where, presumably, there is a great concentration of skeptics of human-caused, or anthropogenic, climate change.
First, and I’ll state this as fact, humans are playing a role — at least 25 percent, according to a panel of climate change experts speaking at SEJ this week — in the warming of our planet. There are many other factors involved, but humans are playing a very significant role.
Daley said there’s no dearth of folks who agree. According to the July KSL poll, 69 percent of Utahns believe global warming is real. 84 percent of the respondents said they believe humans are playing a part in global warming. 13 percent said there is no human connection to global warming.
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By Ed
September 10, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this
Even Bjorn Lomborg (of “Skeptical Environmentalist” notoriety) does not deny climate change.
Here’s a link to his interview at salon.com: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/29/bjorn_lomborg/index.html