On the day the EPA declares CO2 a “dangerous pollutant” we have the from Rasmussen Reports
Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming
is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, while seven percent (7%) blame some other reason. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure.
These numbers reflect a reversal from a year ago when 47% blamed human activity while 34% said long-term planetary trends.
Most Democrats (51%) still say humans are to blame for global warming, the position taken by former Vice President Al Gore and other climate change activists. But 66% of Republicans and 47% of adults not affiliated with either party disagree.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of all Americans believe global warming is at least a somewhat serious problem, with 33% who say it’s Very Serious. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it’s a not a serious problem. The overall numbers have remained largely the same for several months, but the number who say Very Serious has gone down.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of Democrats say global warming is a Very Serious problem, compared to 19% of Republicans and 25% of unaffiliateds.
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President Obama has made global warming a priority for his administration. Half (49%) of Americans think the president believes climate change is caused primarily by human activity. This is the first time that belief has fallen below 50% since the president took office. Just 19% say Obama attributes global warming to long-term planetary trends.
Forty-eight percent (48%) rate the president good or excellent on energy issues. Thirty-two percent (32%) give him poor grades in this area.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of adults now say finding new sources of energy is more important that reducing the amount of energy Americans currently consume. However, 29% say energy conservation is the priority.
A growing number of Americans (58%) say the United States needs to build more nuclear plants. This is up five points from last month and the highest finding so far this year. Twenty-five percent (25%) oppose the building of nuclear plants.
While the economy remains the top issue for most Americans, 40% believe there is a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. Thirty-one percent 31% see no such conflict, while 29% are not sure.
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“40% believe there is a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. ”
60% of the people apparently don’t have a clue!
According to the Intellicast forecast maps, we’re about to see the first spring heatwave in the western half of the US over the next week or so, for my area, how warm it’s supposed to get depends on what forecast you’re looking at, both Intellicast and Weather Underground do not forecast record highs however, and SST data remains quite a bit below the 2003 peak and getting further away.
Northern sea-ice extent is on the verge of seeing a noticable lead over 2003 and temperatures in most of the arctic region are to not get to the point which favors rapid melting.
Ask someone in Colorado right now what they think about Global Warming?
http://blog-url.com/I
Sorry Anthony. That one was good but politics. I meant this one about all the snow in Colorado right now. The pictures are amazing for April 17th.
http://www.14ers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=18388&p=223933#p223933
Jim Watson (10:14:31) :
“When the EPA decision came out yesterday, one of the news broadcasters for the largest talk/news radio station in the United States described carbon dioxide as the gas “emitted by automobiles”.”
I wonder if the news reader knew that at that very moment he too was exhaling that gas “emitted by automobiles”. I have given up on most of these dunderheads in the MSM…
If you compare dot the 97% if climate rearchers who think Global warming has an anthropic origin, this only proces lobbying works on masses…
What is the percentage of Americans who think invisble objects really exist? Because they actually do…
Don’t know that it does much good, but I started keeping track of the regional paper a while back and every time an article comes up on “Global Warming” or climate change, or whatever term it is today, I pass it and the best real life explanation for what is really going on, with links, that I can find to my Member of Parliament. Normally with a reminder that lots of us played with models when we were younger, and that now, just like with video games, some people still get to play with models as adults, except it’s for money too.
He’s gonna get sick of me, but hey it’s slightly amusing.
I know that Christopher Monckton’s language can be off key at times, but I found this one from IceCap that hit some pretty good notes.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/markey_and_barton_letter.pdf
Quoting:
“…And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap.”
Remember, this is the guy that’s writing the Energy and Environment policy for Congress. Does anyone else find this incredibly scary?”
Commenting:
Yo! Me, over here! I find it scary. Waxman, you say? I’ll email him.
I’d like to see someone doing car stickers with mail orders.
I also find it extraordinarily hard to get skeptic material in print through Amazon.
Also, is there a nice friendly presentation “Climate Science for Dummies” that skeptics could take around places for talk + discussion? Get the word out that the “consensus” claim is a lie (as well as non-scientific)?
Do your bumper sticker as a Cap & Trade Tax Tea Party.
Tea Parties are all the rage.
Ian Schumacher said “We need to get rid of democracy and fast! People are irrational and don’t know what’s best for themselves. We should leave big decisions to group of experts that can make rational decisions on the people’s behalf.
[just-kidding!] But you can just see that some people thinking this can’t you?!”
Unfortunately TPTB are not kidding. Why do you think they invented global warming to herd the sheeple in the direction they want them to go?
“The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” David Rockefeller speaking at the Bilderberger meeting in June 1991 in Baden Baden
Brian Johnson “…Also, like a rash that won’t stop itching we have Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund and as a coup de grace, Plain, sorry Plane Stupid and a plethora of mini Green nutters…”
Guess who is funding Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, World Wildlife Fund… Rockefeller of course!
http://www.activistcash.com/foundation.cfm/did/166
http://www.activistcash.com/foundation.cfm/did/167
http://www.activistcash.com/foundation.cfm/did/168
http://www.activistcash.com/foundation.cfm/did/154
Maybe Anthony should apply for a grant; ….No then he would have to tell us the earth is getting warmer due to Mankind’s CO2 emissions. Or Maybe.. Maybe…the Rockefellers will give some of that money to ME!
Lance (10:01:29) :
I was listening to a BBC call in show, Have Your Say, the day before yesterday. The question being discussed was “Is the human race committing suicide by ignoring climate change?” I was disturbed that during the 45 minutes I listened not one caller or guest even questioned that catastrophic climate change was threatening the planet with imminent doom.
The featured guest was documentary film maker Franny Armstrong. She has apparently made a film appropriately named “The Age of Stupid”.
She is a loon.
Caller after caller waxed on apocalyptically about the “fact” that we, and the planet, faced certain doom if we didn’t adopt a neolithic lifestyle devoid of air travel, private automobiles and meat, among other “suicidal” carbon producing behaviors.
Are the producers of this BBC show screening callers or is their audience predisposed towards this nonsense?
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Here’s a great link to a review of that garbage that was posted on here a couple of weeks or so ago:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6359/
I typically would not spend the time or money watching this trash, but I might actually go check out the class racism parts. This is quite disturbing.
If the future involves telling Indian and Nigerian people (and the Chinese) that they can’t fulfill their energy needs, something is going to give on that concept (English class pomposity would be my bet). I also wonder why they picked on the Indian, when they could have just got Richard Branson to play himself ??
Oh, I remember, he flew two planes on biodiesel so he’s one of them, right ??
Lucy Skywalker (13:44:39) :
The “Dummies” books are already dominated by warmers (surprise!).
Try this one
Lucy Skywalker (13:44:39) :
I’d like to see someone doing car stickers with mail orders.
I also find it extraordinarily hard to get skeptic material in print through Amazon.
Also, is there a nice friendly presentation “Climate Science for Dummies” that skeptics could take around places for talk + discussion? Get the word out that the “consensus” claim is a lie (as well as non-scientific)?
Lucy, that is a good idea.
What’s about a WUWT bumper sticker?
In the mean time there is one sticker you probably could order or print out yourself if you have the right printer: http://algorelied.com/?p=1302
You can also order “I love my carbon dioxide stickers at the website of Hans Schreuder, http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com
I personally use an EPSON and it even prints stickers and transfers for T-shirts.
In Europe it is ill advised to drive big cars, especially 4×4, let alone advertise skeptic opinions like a bumper sticker.
They simply trash your car.
It’s think it is time to start a European edition of WUWT.
Probably a increased cloud albedo negetive feedback caused by a small warming, resulting in a big temp drop.
Probably. but that’s the point, isn’t it? Negative feedback = No emergency.
If the administration’s trend toward CO2 regulation policies has gained enough inertia that they are inevitable, then I say let’s get on with it.
The sooner the better that the CO2 scam be excoriated in a court of law.
I want to see Hansen cross examined by an unsympathetic non-ACLU lawyer.
I want Gore to justify his alarmism via disclosure and on the witness stand, finally forcing him into an AGW debate, of sorts…
I want to see the IPCC models’ code subpoenaed.
I want them all to be forced, under oath, to present the scientific justification for their demands that western civilization get set back 150 years.
As you know, climate scientists massively and overwhemingly accept CO2 from humans as a driver of warming (viz the recent EOS paper) and the scientific literature from the “sceptics” is nonexistent.
Why would you “boast” about (perhaps) the greatest disjoint between science and public opinion in history?
Lucy,
What do you think about a simple booklet that takes on the AGW subjects that dominate our media.
It could start with the title:
Are the Global Warming Disasters Real they tell you about real?
The booklet simply takes on the fiction and the facts.
Is CO2 warming the atmosphere?
Is CO2 increasing the sea levels?
Is CO2 causing the icecaps to melt?
Is CO2 causing Glaciers to melt?
Is CO2 causing polar bears to drown?
Is CO2 causing an increase of weather disasters?
– hurricanes
– droughts
etc.
Debunking the second hoax of so called green energy alternatives is also important:
Are windmills a viable solution?
Are bio fuels a viable solution?
Are electric cars a viable solution?
Is solar a solution.
Have we really reached the end of the carbon fuel era?
It could end with a conclusion like:
Why should our Governments make us believe CO2 is a threat to our planet?
It’s a matter of power, tax income and the emergence of an elite that make money
from the new “green” industry.
Tax to be paid by you, additional cost for energy paid by you, possible travel restrictions forced up to you.
The most tricky part is to get good graphic material, pictures and graphs free from copy rights.
But it is doable.
Do you have any ideas?
I think I can make a dummy in a few days time, ready for print or distribution as a PDF file so you can print it yourself.
The same goes for sticker designs.
>The sooner the better that the CO2 scam be excoriated in a court of law.
It already has been to court and the “sceptics” said very different things in a court of law and lost the case (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/12/further-comment-on-the-supreme-court-briefs/langswitch_lang/sp). You can find the CEI petition on their webpage… which accepts CO2 is a greenhouse gas and will drive large warming.
The picture of the submarine surfacing in the Arctic in 1959 is great.
Caption: “It’s President Eisenhower, sir, he wants to know how thick the ice is”.
2 picture of a beach, one 50 years ago and one today, with a caption : “How’s your sea level working out for you?”.
Undoubtedly both of the above.
Re bumper stickers, I propose:
“CO2 is GOOD for plants, GOOD for the Earth, and GOOD for you!”
/Mr Lynn
I don’t believe that the number of people who believe or do not believe that humans are causing global warming at any given moment in time has a significant influence on the ability of the CO2 molecule to absorb and emit infrared photons.
I don’t put much stock in polls like this. There is sort of an implied message that whatever most people believe must be the reality. What the poll reflects is who is winning a marketing campaign, not what the real science is.
All the comments from this side of the pond tonight remind me why I am a bit of a closet skeptic and use a handle here. Christopher Booker also has relevent comment on the climate madness in the UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5177468/Save-the-planet-rhetoric-soars-to-crazy-new-heights.html
..And Chrisptoper Booker gives WUWT another mention re the Catlin Expedition.