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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What ‘terrorism’??
JonesII (09:30:16) :
“If the “global warming agenda” comes from the UN’s IPCC, let us remember all other UN programs which have already been approved in all these years as binding agreements for all nations….
I think we must not limit ourselves to look only to the climate item of their agenda, we should carefully examine all items of the UN’s agenda, which BTW it is not the source but the instrument of a small international elite whose purpose is the absolute control of the world.
(as the George Soros “Open Society” project: http://www.soros.org/ )”</i.
You can add the World Trade Organization to your takeover by the " international elite"
The WTO was given teeth.
“Under the WTO, member countries have the right to challenge other countries’ local, state, or federal laws as impediments to international trade. If the WTO finds the law to be WTO-illegal, the federal government may overturn the law or face potential trade sanctions. This shift in power to a global-level bureaucracy undermines a cornerstone of democracy—the practice of citizens working with public officials to develop laws that protect the public welfare.” http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol2/v2n14wto.html
The US Congress was concerned with this aspect of the WTO and “In ratifying and implementing the WTO trade agreements, Congress expressly stipulated that “nothing in this Act shall be construed…to amend or modify any law of the United States, including any law relating to…the protection of human, animal, or plant life or health.” leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/283/Meyers,_Irina.pdf
Somehow that statement morphed into this statement by the FDA:
International Harmonization
“The harmonization of laws, regulations and standards between and among trading partners requires intense, complex, time-consuming negotiations by CFSAN officials. Harmonization must simultaneously facilitate international trade and promote mutual understanding, while protecting national interests and establish a basis to resolve food issues on sound scientific evidence in an objective atmosphere. Failure to reach a consistent, harmonized set of laws, regulations and standards within the freetrade agreements and the World Trade Organization Agreements can result in considerable economic repercussions.“ http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/int-laws.html
This is where the driving force for a borderless world is coming from:
“The combined assets of the 50 biggest companies is now 60 per cent of the world’s Dollars 20 trillion of productive capital….Ten corporations now control nearly every aspect of the world’s food chain. Four control 90 per cent of the world’s exports of corn, wheat, tobacco, tea, pineapple, jute and forest products.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1997/jun/20/johnvidal
Here is more of the move towards a world government:
In 2007 President Bush signed an agreement with the EU “…the United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership that will see regulatory standards “harmonized” and will lay the basis for a merging of the US and EU into one single market, a huge step on the path to a new globalized world order…” The BBC reported (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6607757.stm)
Democrat or Republican, it does not matter, a totalitarian world government is on the agenda of BOTH parties here in the USA. That is what the corporate controlled lobbyists are pushing.
U.S.President Barak Obama, 27 January 2010:
“Now, I know there are those who doubt the Science… ”
[Laughs, giggles and tittering from around the Chamber]
This is a huge promotion for the folks previously called “deniers”,
“skeptics”, “criminals” and worse.
Thought you guys might like the following quote from Senator Kerry. Kerry and Obama seem to be out of the latest information loop on “global warming” and “climate change.” I don’t think either one of them really give a shit about knowing the facts.
Senator John Kerry (D. – Massachusetts) called on climate and clean energy legislation backers to become more aggressive in their efforts. ”If the Tea Party folks can go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high […] a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they’re being killed and our planet is being injured by what’s happening […] by the way we provide our power,” said Kerry.
Did you all notice that the first laughs and slight heckles that Obama got in his State of the Union speech were when the said something about the settled science of climate change. The next laughs and heckles he got were when he was talking about the spending freeze not taking effect until next year.
The global warming fraud isn’t finished.
At The Minnesota State Level….Cap and Trade Scam begins already…
Environmentalists Target Brown in New Ad
Then we have cope in Mexico, with Arnold sure to be hooked into it somehow, as well as Arnold inviting the whole dog and pony fraud to California, who already has the EPA ready to screw us–all based on unsettled science.
I want new laws to do sanity checks to make sure BANKSTERS are not profiting, and any crap legislation they pass does not change our Constitution or Sovereignty and that no money goes to Rothchilds, IMF, the UN or Banksters, and if such crap was even planned that the planners get LIFE IN PRISON!
In the interest of fairness, please visit the following link:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm