In my Inbox today was a link to a Science Poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. The aim of the poll was to gauge American knowledge of science and it is a parallel poll to one conducted by telephone. Given the millions spent on global warming/climate change messaging, I was shocked to see the results of this question on Carbon Dioxide. Note what I circled in red.
The choices for both of the questions were amazingly simple, and I thought these would score far higher in the general population. One has to wonder about the 24% of college graduates that also missed the CO2 question and the 69% that missed the Nitrogen question. I also wonder what percentage answered "Carbon Dioxide" as the primary gas of Earth's atmosphere instead of Nitrogen.
I got 100% on the test by the way.
You can take it yourself here:
See how your results compare with the 1,006 randomly sampled adults that took part in the Pew national telephone survey and review how you responded to each question.
For more findings from the survey, read "Public's Knowledge of Science and Technology."
Most scientist do not belive that CO2 causes the temperature of the atmosphere to rise. Most pseudo scientists do.