It seems that the public just doesn’t share the worry some of the activists have.
From the Pew Research Center
Global Warming and the Environment
Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey.
Since 2007, when the item was first included on the priorities list, dealing with global warming has consistently ranked at or near the bottom. Even so, the percentage that now says addressing global warming should be a top priority has fallen 10 points from 2007, when 38% considered it a top priority. Such a low ranking is driven in part by indifference among Republicans: just 11% consider global warming a top priority, compared with 43% of Democrats and 25% of independents.
Protecting the environment fares somewhat better than dealing with global warming on the public’s list of priorities, though it still falls on the lower half of the list overall. Some 44% say that protecting the environment should be a top priority for Obama and Congress, little changed from 2009.
See the complete report at the Pew Research Center
h/t to Leif Svalgaard
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Some people are worried about the lack of global warming.
Scott Brown ran his campaign on the Top 3 plus health care.
More interesting is the decline (-11) in those concerned with dealing with America’s energy problems. Unemployment trumps all. Bill Clinton said it best–ITES…
Wow. Glad to see helping the poor beats it, but why are there separate categories for health care and health insurance? Aren’t they the same thing?
I know you didn’t write the poll, just sayin’.
All that has to be done is to dismantle the IPCC, bury it, and make sure nothing happens like this again.
Amazing how easily your priorities shift when you can’t pay the heating bill due to record cold.
Economy and Jobs are a big deal.
Global Warming is what you get when you back up against the heater on a cold morning.
No surprise here. The public is gradually realising what has been going on and more and more people are seeing through the AGW scam.
BTW What’s happpened to the WEBLOG awards?
We, the people have spoken.
It’s good to see that global warming finished dead last on the poll. Perhaps for the next Pew poll they will replace “Global Warming” with “Global Warming Hoax”. That issue may score rather high on the list of priorities the next time around.
The IPCC should be declared an international terrorist organization, thus making it illegal for funds to flow to them from the USA.
I don’t figure out the meaning of “Lobbyists”, the third from bottom.
The US people are scared by lobbyists, or wish an increase in the number of lobbyists??
Apologies. A bit OT but interesting.
After contacting Phil Willis – Chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee on 24 Jan. (Posted under Quote of the Week #27)
Martin Brumby (05:06:06) :
I received a speedy reply yesterday (25 Jan) saying:-
“Dear Mr Brumby,
“Thankyou for your email, which I have passed onto the Science and Technology Select Committee clerks. I assure you that when we are considering the emails leaked from UEA we will take your submission into consideration.
“I’d also like to add that I accept that my use of the phrase ‘Climate Deniers’ was a mistake, and I shall endeavour not to use it in the future. I apologise for any offence caused by my error, although I assure you that none was intended.
“Yours Sincerely,
Phil Willis MP”
A reasonable reply, I think. Note that the Chairman of the Committee who is investigating the UEA emails refers unambiguously to “emails leaked from UEA”.
Not a hacker in sight….
It’s always the ‘economy stupid’, especially considering the shocking rise in unemployment in the US. Who cares about carbon mumbo jumbo when they’ve got no money to buy carbon? OT but I love this quote: Global warming is sub-prime science, sub-prime economics, and sub-prime politics, and it could well go down with the sub-prime mortgage.” (Philip Stott, September 21)
It would have been interesting if they had included an option:-
“Dealing with the global warming scam”
That might have done better!
I don’t know why Terrorism is on the list. Terrorism is a tactic. It’s an intangible. You cant touch it and you cant put your finger on it because it’s an intangible concept. Oh well, one brainwashing event at a time.
tokyoboy (23:18:53) :
Usually when you see something like this in a poll ‘What should X Administration be doing?’, there is an assumption that simply putting ‘lobbyist’ will imply the actual meaning of ‘Restraint of the act of lobbying’. If you are indeed from Tokyo, maybe this is a Western media thing(?), but it could also be that the graph is built on data explained in the reported poll results, which would further delve into the meaning behind each category listed in the graph.
I am still not understanding the rationale for separating ‘health care’ and ‘health insurance’ if it makes you feel any better. 🙂
Obviously, enough hasn’t been spent on Warmist propaganda, yet. Obama will add 44% to 28%, get 72%, and open the floodgates. “The people have spoken; the science is settled. Let’s spend another billion or two. Where do I bow?”
DaveF: If you want people to take you seriously, I’d suggest not adding “Just sayin'” to the end of all your comments:
All those cool AGW ads on cable: W A S T E D !!!!
Has anyone fed the historical AGW poll results into Mann’s hockey stick formula / system to see the results yet ?
The environment should be a lot higher, but I’m happy with global warming on the last place!
Our political and (so-called) intellectual elites believe that the common people are ignorant fools. See anything by Joe Klein, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman or the White House staff, just to name a few. The Pew Poll shows that Americans are actually rather well clued into the real world in spite of the constant barrage of propaganda they ingest daily from the MSM.
These same elites believe the weak point of democracy is that the common people’s vote counts as much as, say, Al Gore’s. Therefore it is fair to cheat the system a bit, in order to make sure hoi polloi gets what is best for them as determined by those so much wiser and with so much more vested interests.
Every morning we should wake up, kiss the sky and be grateful for the free market of ideas which the Internet has made impossible to suppress, for without it George Orwell’s dystopian visions of the future would be well upon us.
Moral decline rates a 45. Another decline that’s tough to hide.
It’s good to see that while concern about global warming has dropped two points, concern about protecting the environment has risen three points.
I was worried that people would throw the environmental baby out with the co2 driven warming bathwater.
jorgekafkazar (23:34:49) :
If someone is going to apply that standard to comments I make here, I am not incredibly concerned with it, but thank you for the advice. If it bothers you so, I will refrain from it when addressing you. Otherwise please restrain yourself from the grammar nazi behavior. It is sometimes necessary to over do the ‘tone of voice’ in typing to portray the unwritten communication accurately. Most interpersonal communication does not involve text, but subtlety such as body language or vocal tone. How does a person accomplish this on the internet? Just sayin’… 😉
May I see the hands of all of you that have actually participated in a poll such as this? I have taken a few phone polls early in my life and decided that after the loaded questions they fed me to never answer the pollsters again. The best poll is the ballot.