“no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain for the first time I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts.”
George Orwell
We are living out Orwell’s 1984 now. NOAA officially ignores tornado records prior to 1950. Hansen has cooled the 1930s into an average decade. Mann has erased the MWP, Newsweek makes no attempt to tell the truth, ever. Time Magazine uses Joe Romm as their primary source.
The key to controlling the masses with CO2 fear is to convince them that Earth never used to have bad weather. The strategy is working in Australia.
CLIMATE change sceptics are an endangered species in Australia, a national survey shows.
The survey of almost 3100 Australians found 74 per cent believe the world’s climate is changing.
When asked a different question about the causes of climate change, which removed the reference to personal beliefs, 90 per cent of respondents said human activity was a factor.
Just five per cent said climate change was entirely caused by natural processes.
Overall, less than six per cent of respondents could reasonably be classified as true climate change sceptics, the study by Griffith University researchers found.
Weal survey, or phaik?
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exactly what I was thinking, Nik. Phony surveys are part of the propaganda.
And so it goes……….does anyone really believe the 5 or 6 percent numbers? And even if the lie were true, what is the impetus to state such lunacy? …………. This is why they fail, and continue to fail. Even the most middle-of-the-road moderate doesn’t believe, consensus=truth. In fact, the climate debacle has shown consensus doesn’t amount to shiite. Just like the bank bailouts were a good thing…….. Now, if a conservative were to take advantage of such events…………….
“Time Magazine uses Joe Romm as their primary source”
Seriously? You know a magazine is completely screwed up when that happens…
Lies, deception, hysteria are excellent ways to sell the news.
Recently there was a mock trial held in Sweeden charging humanity with crimes against nature.
http://www.geneveith.com/2011/06/01/putting-humanity-on-trial/
50 years before 1984, a group of European societal elites accomplished for real what the 2011 European elites accomplished in a symbolic mock trial, in an effort to create their vision of a perfect world. 50 years before 1984 environmentalism was co-opted by a new political faction to be used to persuade its citizens that industrialization and capitalism was evil and against nature. In this case however those deemed guilty of crimes against nature, received no trial.
http://www.offthegridnews.com/2011/05/10/the-green-movement-in-historical-perspective/
Fake survey. Australians aren’t anywhere near that thick.
The survey may be correct. Australians believe climate is changing. They are right, climate is always changing. The question is how much, how fast and it what direction.
They say humans may be a factor. They may be “a” factor. One factor out of many factors. The question is whether they are an important factor and again, in what direction.
So even if the survey is technically correct, it hardly means that Australians have consumed the Kool Aid with respect to catastrophic manmade warming that requires drastic, immediate action.
Good analysis on skeptic decline nonsense from http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/06/survey-results-spun-to-fit-warmist-agenda/
What they have sneakily done here is to redefine the word “sceptics” to mean only those who believe humans have no influence whatsoever on the climate. This, of course, is utter nonsense, as the vast majority of sceptics acknowledge that human activity has some effect on climate. So before we even start, commonly used terminology has been misused to make it appear that sceptics are dwindling – phew, say Herald and ABC editors.
And when you look at the actual results, they also tell a very different story (as always). Here is the key question from the original report (source – 1MB PDF):
Q9. Thinking about the causes of climate change, which, if any, of the following best describes your opinion?
•Climate change is entirely caused by natural processes: 4.9%
•Climate change is mainly caused by natural processes: 12.6%
•Climate change is partly caused by natural processes and partly by human activity: 45.8%
•Climate change is mainly caused by human activity: 27.6%
•Climate change is entirely caused by human activity: 4.2%
Which would I be in? Somewhere in the middle of the 12.6% that climate change is mainly caused by natural processes and the 45.8% who say climate change is partly caused by natural processes and partly by human activity. So according to the Herald and the ABC, I’m not a sceptic – and I run a climate sceptic blog! Hilarious.
So without our warmist goggles on, let’s interpret the results a different way, shall we?
•Less than a third of the population think that climate change is mainly or entirely caused by human activity (31.8%)
•Almost twice that number think that climate change is mainly or partly caused by natural processes (58.4%)
So in reality, the survey shows a healthy scepticism of the claim that human activity is predominantly to blame for climate change. But that doesn’t fit the warmist agenda does it?
Another result was that 85% of respondents were either fairly or very concerned that electricity would become unaffordable in the future. But strangely, that result didn’t make it into the Fairfax or ABC articles…
You realize that we are living in 1984, yet you support Sarah Palin, who no doubt would continue the Patriot Act and the growth of the police state, not to mention so many of the other horrible, unconstitutional practices of the out-of-control federal government.
BTW. One does not get to be president unless they are approved by the oligarchs. So if Sarah wins, it will be because she’s been chosen–and not by the voters.