The Puffington Host has released a legitimate poll about global warming, putting them far ahead of several top universities which have recently released blatantly manipulative poll results.
Polls show Climate Change is dead as a politically accepted man-made phenomenon in the USA. The American public just doesn’t care anymore.
An even more startling result is how few people believe global warming is caused by human activity. On this question, the percentage who believe global warming is man-made has dropped from 47% in 2006 to 36% in 2009. On the basis of political party, the response to this question is even starker. About one-third of all Independents and less than one-fifth of all Republicans believe that global warming is man-made.
Clearly cherry-picked as you are not showing the consistently 100% values that MUST have existed prior to all this drivel about [CO2] because evil = hell = heat and man is evil so we are all going to hell in a hand basket and that means we are creating heat, just by existing.
Can I lie down now?
Good point. Wonder when we hit zero? Utilizing the Serreze method, sometime next year according to that trend. (At least, for the thinking portion of the population) I see the mentally challenged are dragging up the rear, as usual.
Democrat numbers haven’t moved much. They like the control over people, the taking from those who have and giving to those who don’t, the persecutions of people who make something out of themselves, the higher taxes, the guilt over progress, and most of all, that Al Gore is the biggest name in it, that is all part of global warming.
It’s Democratic.
Members of the Republic Party seem to have inordinate difficulty in remembering the name of one of the two major American political parties.
Even more amazing when you look at the questions:
•Is there solid evidence of global warming?
•If so, is it because of human activity?
I might even say yes to both, but to the third question which is never asked: “is it dangerous” I’d resoundingly say NO, and it might even be a good thing the way the solar cycle is looking right now.
Who knows how many of the yes sayers in the poll would’ve been in a similar boat?
(My view is that man emitted CO2 is worth maybe 0.3 C/century based on the temperature record and measured 2XCO2’s and it’ll require centuries before it becomes a problem. If ever.)
Oops, have to correct myself. They did ask “how serious a problem” but huffpo didn’t include those results:
2008 2009
Very serious 44 35
Somewhat serious 29 30
Not too serious 13 15
Not a problem 11 17
Don’t know 3 3
That was October 2009, it’d be interesting to see what the same poll would say today.
“Doubts over scientists’ climate change debate claims”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11574503
“Press coverage has cast further doubt on climate scientists’ claims that man-made global warming is real and adversely affecting the planet.
Polls show that the public are becoming increasingly confused about the issue. Adam Fleming reports”
Confused is progressive code word for informed.
stevengoddard writes,
“The Puffington Host has released a legitimate poll about global warming, putting them far ahead of several top universities which have recently released blatantly manipulative poll results.”
More honesty: the Puffington Host did not release a legitimate poll about global warming, so this did not put them ahead of anybody.
Instead, statistician Gary Liberson wrote an article for the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-liberson/cut-the-deficit-address-g_b_769577.html
In Liberson’s article he cites polls conducted 2006-2009 by the Pew Research Center and published by them, for example in this October 2009 report which contains a version of the same graph above:
http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming
The Pew Research polls are widely respected, and soon after they were published became cited by other university researchers.
If you liked this Pew research better than some other poll, perhaps from Yale, why not actually read both studies, and articulate your reasons, instead of dashing off a blog post without even reading the HuffPo article it quotes?
Hows this for honesty…
In spite of Climate Change being LAST (21of21) on the list of priorities,
http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010
enormous amounts money ($10.6bil) is pumped into this not urgent, maybe important item.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47842
I think reducing Climate Change funding to the level of the Bush-Admin Foreign Aid budget (~$200mil) is appropriate 😉