Monday’s Misleading Headline: A short-term dip does not a trend make

Gallup reports: “Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S.”

Here’s the evidence.

So, I downloaded the data, redrew the graphs, added trendlines, then deleted the original data to better suss out the underlying trends without all the confusing squiggly lines. Here you go.

Oh, and I gave it a new title: No Obvious Conclusion Can be Drawn about Trends in Attitudes Toward Environmental Problems in the U.S.