Review: Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Recently, I saw a rather perplexing poll that showed a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising (57% now vs 71% a year ago), and that this is because of human activity (36% now vs 47% a year ago). This is in sharp contrast to the 97% of active climatologists who agree that human activity is causing global warming and the gradually increasing confidence of the IPCC reports summarising the state of climate science.