Bad News In Global Warming Survey
by KevinJanuary 30th, 2007
There are some rather depressing facts in this survey. The headline grabber, of course, is the 13% of Americans have never heard of global warming, despite the fact that the US is the leading producer of greenhouse gases. More worrisome, only 42% of Americans think that shift in climate is a “very serious” problem — lowest in the world. It is bad enough that 13% of the country is oblivious. it is much worse that less than a majority of the country consider global warming to be a serious problem. the United States is the largest producer of greenhouses gases; there can be no solution that does not involve the United States. And yet less than half the country considers the problem very serious, meaning that there is a not a majority consensus to treat global warming as a top priority. That can only slow down our already pathetic response to global warming, and that can only make the situation worse in the long run.
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you ever watched jay walking on jay leno? I’d say 13% of americans have never heard of verbs.
Thank goodness for Democracy. The majority of the people happen to be right about this. Repeated Gallup polls show that a majority of climatologists and meteorologists never accepted the AGW theory either. Please report these poll results also. Obviously tax financed scientists, depending on the patronage of politicians and government bureaucrats know what results they need to report to keep their grant funding. But they represent a minority of opinion in the scientific community. Somehow they are always available when journalists would like to buttress the headlines they’d like to write. I don’t recall seeing any survey or poll showing that a majority of climate scientists ever supported the AGW theory. Also we should remember that the IPCC comes from the same U.N. that elected Libya chairmanship of their human rights commission. Does Libya really represent the free-worlds leadership on human rights? Their own government wasn’t even elected by their own people.
We all remember the Y2K scare. Rather than focus on the AGW theory, which no one has been able to prove after 30 years of trying, why not focus on areas where environmentalists have common ground with the vast majority of people, where real problems can be solved? If a river is polluted to the point where fish can’t live in it, that’s a real problem. If the refinery fouls the air so bad you can’t stand to breath it, that’s a real problem. If species are threatened with extinction due to habitat destruction, that’s a real problem. The environmental movement has a great many successes that we all know and appreciate. I can remember when the Missouri river used to smell like an open sewer. When I was a kid we used to roll up the car windows before crossing the I-70 bridge over the river, it smelled so bad. Now you can’t smell it at all when crossing that same bridge.
Wasting hundreds of billions of dollars worth of economic resources on the AGW theory, is not justified. There are other more worthy objectives that are far less controversial that would get much better support from the general public. Environmentalists would also be wise to consider what their credibility will be ten years from now when their dire predictions fail to materialize.
The hysteria over global warming is nothing new:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” -H.L. Menkin (1880–1900)
The problem here is that the Environmentalist movement has been hijacked by disingenuous self-serving politicians, and self-serving professional activists, who have become far to comfortable in their positions of power to care about our daily lives and the environment we all share.
Correction to my last post:
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)