With the upcoming Gore-a-thon set for September 14th, Gore needs an attention boost more than ever. And that’s not all, the number of people that beleive the sun has a role is growing. 60% of likely U.S. Voters think it’s at least somewhat likely that the level of activity on the sun, including solar flares and sunspots, has an impact on the long-term heating and cooling of the earth’s atmosphere. Just 22% feel that it’s unlikely solar activity influences the atmosphere’s long-term temperature.
From Rasmussen reports:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that just 24% of voters consider Gore an expert on global warming. Fifty-nine percent (59%) do not think Gore is an expert on the subject, an increase in skepticism of 12 points since March 2007. Another 18% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
While a plurality of Democrats (43%) considers Gore an expert on global warming, most Republicans (80%) and voters not affiliated with either major political party (65%) disagree.
Gore may disagree, but most voters believe solar activity has an impact on global cooling and warming. A narrow plurality gives human activity the edge over sun activity, though, when it comes to which one has a bigger impact on the problem.
Gore is viewed at least somewhat favorably by 40% of voters, with 14% holding a Very Favorable opinion of him. Fifty-three percent (53%) regard him at least somewhat unfavorably, including 38% with a Very Unfavorable view.
That’s some bad chakra. Even serial wailer Bill McKibben’s message on “weather is climate, it really is, especially when there’s a hurricane” is falling out of favor too:
With hurricane season in full swing, 41% of American Adults believe global warming is creating climate changes that lead to more extreme weather events. But that’s down 14 points from June 2008 when 55% felt that way. Forty-three percent (43%) disagree and say global warming is not producing more extreme weather.
Read the whole report here at Rasmussen reports
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Al is fast being relegated to a Used Climate Theory Salesman…in a bad economy.
Do you have back reports? It would be fun to graph these and see the trend over the last several years.
There shouldn’t be even that many who take him seriously…I blame terrible high school science teachers.
(Hey, wait just a darn minute there…)
🙂
Note to Al Gore:
The end is near … it comes for thee.
Not to be a balloon-breaker or anything, but I’m a consesus-skeptic, no matter whose consensus is being trotted out. While I may agree that the statistics suggest that the Al Gore Rhythm is getting increasingly un-groovy, his drum beat is still loud, and still dangerous. I hope you’re right, rbateman, but until Gore can credibly silence himself, we should all be worried.
Algore’s primary failing is finally catching up to him. Al’s problem is that he has not for a moment behaved in his personal life as if he took all the hysterical BS he’s been relentlessly spreading the least bit seriously. 99% of the public haven’t got a clue about the science of the climate, but they do love their gossip. When you’re ranting hysterically about 20 foot rises in sea level, while simultaneously purchasing a couple multi-million dollar sea side properties even the detached public will notice eventually. When you are telling people they need to ditch their SUVs and confine their transport to micro electric suicide boxes, while flying about on private jets and being driven around by convoys of even bigger SUVs, which sit idling outside while you make your little speeches and collect your honoraria, people will notice. Al has always talked the talk, but not once has really walked the walk. It took much longer than I thought, but the world is finally on to him.
If you start from a position of lying to support your political objective, its inconvenient that the great unwashed masses (us) wont forget what you did and why you did it. No amount of hand waving and personal attacks on the integrity of others will wipe out that memory. Our dear (read economically destructively expensive) Prime minister Julia would well consider that point,
There comes a time to recant and simply say, I was wrong, instead of digging the hole deeper!!
Shows how dumb Americans are, it is impossible for the Sun to be responsible for warming as Sloar activity has been declining for the last 30 years.
24%………still so many??
When someone attempts to rebut mostly with terms like “bullsh*t”, their credibility is likely to plummet.
The warmists forgot one thing when they tried to persuade the world that AGW is happening and that is common sense. They were unable to provide answers to the following questions:
1) Why should I be paying a fortune for my gas,electricity,petrol and flights and have my countryside disfigured by windmills when industrial giants like China and India do nothing and have booming economies?
2) What % of CO2 in the atmosphere is regarded as “safe”?
3) 3% of CO2 in the atmosphere is man made, how do we deal with the other 97%?
4) Why have we had three cold winters in a row (with a fourth predicted) when we were told that AGW would mean that snow in the UK would be a thing of the past?
5) Likewise with the cool and wet summers?
6) Why are we building more wind turbines when we need power stations running in the background to provide power when the wind doesn’t blow?
7) Why are people who question AGW derided, insulted and described as “mentally ill” by AGW supporters?
8) If the science is “settled” why do we need more money pumped into research?
9) Is AGW as likely to end the world as HIV, bird flu, swine flu, tobacco, alcohol, mad cow disease, the millennium bug, 2012 and whatever date this year that some idiot told us would end mankind?
10) Climategate, hockey sticks, lawyers paid vast sums to prevent data paid for by the public, being seen by the public?
11) The global economic meltdown will be nothing in comparison to what will happen to the worldwide economy if we reduce CO2 emissions to the levels proposed. Is it worth it?
Al’s problem is nobody doesn’t know a nutter when they see one. If there’s anyone in Amurika today that needs to keep their damn closet door closed, it is the Gorical.
Come on, y’all, you know the tune, sing it! He’s got dirty laundry…
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/don+henley/dirty+laundry_20042033.html
didn’t realise we were asleep!
9 Sept: Sydney Morning Herald, Australia: Adam Gartrell, AAP Diplomatic Correspondent: UN boss urges climate sceptics to wake up
United Nations boss Ban Ki-moon has urged sceptical Australians to face up to the “alarming” reality of climate change as he wrapped up a week-long tour of the Pacific…
“For those people who are still sceptical about the impact of climate change then I would invite them to visit Kiribati,” Mr Ban told journalists in Canberra.
“I would invite them to visit the Aral Sea or Lake Chad.
“You will see very clearly that something is happening much, much faster than you may think. This is alarming.”…
“The Aral Sea was more shocking,” he said.
“What I saw was continuing, endless seabed, now only salt. There was no single drop of water I could see.”
Mr Ban said the science of climate change was clear.
“We must take action. Every country – big or small – they have to take their national measures. And every citizen, they have to do their own (part).”…
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/un-boss-urges-climate-sceptics-to-wake-up-20110909-1k11a.html
Andrew Harding says:
September 8, 2011 at 11:30 pm
2) What % of CO2 in the atmosphere is regarded as “safe”?
In a similar manner, asked but unanswered is ‘What is the ideal global temperature anomaly?’
criminogenic says:
September 8, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Shows how dumb Americans are, it is impossible for the Sun to be responsible for warming as Sloar activity has been declining for the last 30 years.
If you have a high flame under a pot of water, it will heat the water up even if you turn the flame down a bit. The Sun was more than averagely active all the way from around the mid 1930’s all the way to 2003. That’s why the ocean continued to accumulate heat content, despite the decline in the peak amplitudes of the solar cycles after 1958.
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/nailing-the-solar-activity-global-temperature-divergence-lie/
24%?
You’re kidding me.
Who’s the skinny guy holding the sign?
What do you expect he is a politician. They are ignorant self aggrandizing specimens after all they can get to boost the bank balance. Gore is no exception.
New video released from Gore:
‘Al’, ‘Gore’ and ‘expert’. Three words that should never be used in the same sentance.
“Shows how dumb Americans are, it is impossible for the Sun to be responsible for warming as [b]Sloar[/b] activity has been declining for the last 30 years.”
Oh, the irony…
Meanwhile,
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he hopes Australia will “lead the way” globally in combating climate change.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/ban-kimoon-challenges-climate-sceptics-20110908-1jzg1.html#ixzz1XRbBiR8w
Al may be losing his mojo but there are others still beating the same drum.
criminogenic says:
September 8, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Shows how dumb Americans are, it is impossible for the Sun to be responsible for warming as Sloar activity has been declining for the last 30 years.
Haha! Shows how dumb YOU are! Do some (real) research first before posting simplistic illogical statements. And consider this: If two men are in a race, and one starts running faster than the other, he will overtake the other man and get away. Then, if the faster man starts to slow down a little he will STILL keep getting further ahead as long as he is still running faster. So, yes the sun has been “slowing down” a little (as it were), but it’s still been running fast enough to get away.
Mike Bromley the Kurd says: September 8, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Not to be a balloon-breaker or anything, but I’m a consesus-skeptic, no matter whose consensus is being trotted out.
Totally agree with you, and I doubt you’ll find a single person here that disagrees with you!
I see we have the “pleasure” of hosting Al Gored, in Edinburgh on 27-28Sept.
Now if anyone could give me the £774.00 to get in, I will promise to do my utmost to ask gore some of the questions he doesn’t want to answer.
It’s very tempting – Just an hour away – even if only I had a pile of leaflets to hand out.