Der Spiegel Poll: Only 39% of Germans fear global warming — Down from 62% in 2006

Der Spiegel reports:

For a quarter of a century now, environmental activists have been issuing predictions in the vein of the Catholic Church, warning people of the coming greenhouse effect armageddon. Environmentalists bleakly predict global warming will usher in plagues of biblical dimensions — perpetual droughts, deluge-like floods and hurricanes of unprecedented force.

The number of people who believe in such a coming apocalypse, however, has considerably decreased. A survey conducted on behalf of SPIEGEL found a dramatic shift in public opinion — Germans are losing their fear of climate change. While in 2006 a sizeable majority of 62 percent expressed a fear of global warning, that number has now become a minority of just 39 percent.

One cause of this shift, presumably, is the fact that global warming seems to be taking a break. The average global temperature hasn’t risen in 15 years, a deviation from climatologists’ computer-simulated predictions.

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[h/t NoTricksZone]

4 thoughts on “Der Spiegel Poll: Only 39% of Germans fear global warming — Down from 62% in 2006”

  1. Did they ever consider that maybe the shift in opinion was because the widely foretold Mayan prediction of the “Great Apocalypse” in 2012 was… well, rather uneventful?

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