Questions - Winter Weather - January 26-27, 2014
46% Think Media Overhypes Weather Events
62% Say Winter Has Been Worse This Year
25% Will Vacation This Winter
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National Survey of 1,000
Adults
Conducted January
26-27, 2014
By Rasmussen Reports
1* Which is
your favorite time to take a vacation – spring, summer, fall or winter?
2* Have you taken or will you take a winter vacation this year?
3* Is winter worse this year
in your area than it has been in recent years?
4* Generally speaking, does the media make the weather sound
worse than it really is?
5* Is global warming causing
an increase in the number of major storms and the unusually
cold weather in many parts of the country?
6* Which is more likely—that
the world is going through global warming or that we are about to enter a
mini-ice age?
7* Has your hometown
experienced a heavy snow storm this winter?
8* How do you rate the way that local authorities deal with
major storms where you live …. excellent, good, fair
or poor?
9* Where do you get most of your weather news – the local TV
news, cable TV, radio, newspapers or the Internet?
NOTE:
Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of
confidence