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May 8, 2004, 12:10pm
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From this page :
In his book, See, I Told You So , Rush Limbaugh misquoted a Gallup poll, claiming that 53% of scientists do not believe that global warming is taking place, 30 percent say they don’t know, and only 17 percent are “devotees of this dubious theory.” (1) Unfortunately, this is a gross misrepresentation the original poll, which actually found that 66 percent of all scientists agree that global warming has occurred, 10 percent disagree, and the rest are undecided. Rush apparently got his incorrect numbers from a second hand source (either George Will or the National Review) without bothering to confirm them. He has continued to use these false figures despite the fact that Gallup has issued a rare written correction: “Most scientists involved in research in this area do believe human-induced global warming is occurring now.”
Does anyone know more about the poll? I can’t find the official results of this poll anywhere. Of course I’m inclined not to believe Rush Limbaugh, but the above debunking page doesn’t have any cites that I could check.
The 1992 poll?
Myth No. 1: Some 98 percent of scientists believe that global warming is real – as former Veep Al Gore wrote in his 1992 book, “Earth in the Balance.” To the contrary, a 1992 Gallup poll found that only 17 percent of climatologists were convinced that human-induced global warming was real.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/debrasaunders/ds20011116.shtml
RUSH FICTION: “Algore’s (sic) book is full of calculated disinformation. For instance, he claims that 98% of scientists believe global warming is taking place. However a Gallup poll of scientists involved in global climate research shows that 53% do not believe that global warming has occurred, 30% say they don’t know, and only 17% are devotees of this dubious theory.”
SCIENTIFIC FACT: These numbers, apparently from a George Will column of 3 September 1992, are supposed to show the findings of a Gallup poll taken in late 1991 to ascertain the opinions of research scientists concerning global warming. Nowhere in the actual poll results are there figures that resemble those cited by Will or Limbaugh. Instead, the poll found a substantial majority of the scientists polled, 66%, believed that human-induced global warming was already occurring. Only 10% disagreed, and the remainder were undecided.
http://www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?ContentID=2433
I can’t find the actual poll results either.
There’s also a 2001 poll