Great news! It turns out that man-made global warming is all-of-a-sudden 8 percent less of real thing that we should be concerned about! Yeah! We did it, America!

The percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dipped from 80 to 72 percent in the past year, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, even as a majority still support a national cap on greenhouse gas emissions…

The increase in climate skepticism is driven largely by a shift within the GOP. Since its peak 3 1/2 years ago, belief that climate change is happening is down sharply among Republicans — 76 to 54 percent — and independents — 86 to 71 percent. It dipped more modestly among Democrats, from 92 to 86 percent. A majority of respondents still support legislation to cap emissions and trade pollution allowances, by 53 to 42 percent.

Wow! That's practically the same 52 percent of Republicans who discovered somehow that evil mastermind community organization ACORN fixed the national election to illegally hand the presidency to Muslim Kenyan spy Barack Obama. What do those people know that the rest of us don't?

Maybe it's just that they're better at interpreting the evidence…

Amanda Feinberg, a retired administrative assistant living in South Williamsport, Pa., said she became disenchanted with the idea of human-caused global warming when former vice president Al Gore launched a public awareness campaign with his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

"He just seemed a little radical in his views," said Feinberg, a Republican. "I don't deny it's happening, I just think it's just an evolution of nature."

Well, that rationale certainly checks out. In fact, it's the exact same way that Nicolaus Copernicus formulated his theory of heliocentric cosmology. To spite some guy he didn't care for who was being all smug about how the Sun's always rotating around the Earth and stuff.

Ah, Science!