Predictably tracking the MSM’s hysterical coverage of global warming, large majorities of Americans told major polls done by the NYTimes and Time in the last month that global warming is effecting the weather and needs to be addressed immediately.

But when asked whether they would sacrifice to combat the problem, similar majorities said no.The Times asked, for example, if respondents would support an increased gas tax of $2 a gallon (half what Europeans pay), to combat climate change. Eighty percent said no – the same number that said global warming was a serious problem. In the Time poll, 81 percent said they would oppose higher taxes on electricity.

In other words, Americans do not see global warming as the greatest moral challenge of our time. Like Lomborg’s economists, the public doesn’t think climate change is a priority. Despite the press-induced uptick in Americans awareness of global warming as an issue, the numbers opposing meaningful measures to combat it have remained notably unchanged from similar polls taken back in the late1980s when Gore first held Senate hearings on the issue.