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I'm rather shocked that the numbers on this are so low. It's higher than polls indicate as the degree of acceptance in America, but then, we're dealing with a public where supposedly half of the people believe that tomatoes only have genes if they are genetically modified. Is this a subject on which Less Wrongers are significantly meta-contrarian?
Perhaps they also want to signal a sentiment similar to that of Freeman Dyson:
That gets to the issue I had with the question.
"Significant" is just too vague. Everyone who gave an answer was answering a different question, depending on how they interpreted "significant".
The survey question itself indicates a primary problem with the discussion of global warming - a conflation of temperature rise and societal cost of temperature rise. First, ask a meaningful question about temperature increase. Then, ask questions about societal cost given different levels of temperature increase.