Public opinion
There has been a debate among public commentators about how much weight and media coverage should be given to each side of the controversy.f the stated that "There's a great danger that on some issues we're becoming a one-party state in which we're meant to have only one kind of view. You don't have to be a climate-change denier to recognise that there's a great range of opinion on the subject." on the other hand, sees the media in the United States bending over backwards to give equal time to both sides, when and re at odds
The level of coverage that US mass media devoted to global warming "was minimal prior to 1988" but interest increased significantly after the drought of 1988, and related Senate testimony o "attributing the abnormally hot weather plaguing our nation to global warming". Similarly, incipient coverage of climate change in the British press "changed at the end of 1988 ... stimulated by Margaret Thatcher's appropriation of the risks of climate change to promote nuclear energy and dismantle the coal industry ... but also by environmental organizations and political forces in opposition who demanded solutions that contrasted with the government's.All European Union member states ratified the 199, and many European countries had already been taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions prior to 1990. For example advocated action against man-made climate change in 1988, and Germany started to take action after the took seats in Parliament across the 1980s. Substantial activity by took place as well. Both "global warming" and the more politically neutral "climate change" were listed by the as political buzzwords o in 2005 In Europe, the notion of human influence on climate gained wide acceptance more rapidly than in many other parts of the world, most notably the United States A 2009 Eurobarometer survey titled "Europeans' Attitude Toward Climate Change" notes that, on the average, Europeans rate climate change as the second most serious problem facing the world today, between "poverty, the lack of food and drinking water" and "a major global economic downturn." 87% of Europeans consider climate change to be a "very serious" or "serious" problem, while 10% "do not consider it a serious problem."
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