Results of the latest Gallup poll:
Worldwide, Blame for Climate Change Falls on Humans
Americans among least likely to attribute to human causes
by Julie Ray and Anita Pugliese
WASHINGTON, D.C. — World residents are more likely to blame human activities than nature for the rise in temperatures associated with climate change. Thirty-five percent of adults in 111 countries in 2010 say global warming results from human activities, while less than half as many (14%) blame nature. Thirteen percent fault both.
Lawrence Solomon makes an observation:
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where 54% are not aware that their climate is alleged to be warming, a mere 22% have heard of the global warming issue and predominantly blame humans for the warming. In undeveloped Asia, 48% are unaware that the climate is warming and 27% predominantly blame humans.
It would seem that access to MSM figures greatly in that trend, many of the world’s poorest have no radio, TV, newspapers, or Internet access. But one has to wonder, if the people that live closest to the earth (such as natives in sub-Saharan Africa) can’t detect changes around them, are we manufacturing a crisis that we wouldn’t notice otherwise?
The Gallup poll is available here (PDF) and questions, and the responses by region and by country, are here.
The US media are generally rather silent on the topic of the indigenous American people and their energy efficient lives (some 50 million apparently) that had to make way for the incoming holier-than-thou people and their media networks. Funny how history repeats itself.
Think the global warning is a huge problem and everything is to late to do anything about it…
Not surprising that folks are so uninformed given the propaganda that has been put out for years now. That is, of course, if one can believe the study.
This poll is pretty meaningless.
A much better one was the one MORI conducted worldwide asking people the top 3 (out of 15) environmental problems.
Only 33% of people put GW in the top 3.
In the UK it was 25% – more people were worried about energy security and garbage collections.
Support for the scam has collapsed.
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/849698/only_a_quarter_of_uk_population_concerned_about_climate_change.html
Full details here:
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2771/Energy-security-is-a-top-concern-for-Brits.aspx
Ken Hall says: “Finally, with that table, there is some proof that Americans are the smartest people on the planet!”
Right! Oh, wait. They elected Obama. Never mind.
Skeptics you must accept that Global warming causes absolutely everything & stop your mindless questioning of the models and how thy arrived at such wacky conclusions, Stop putting up scientific fact based roadblocks to these wonderful climate scientist’s, their paymaster’s Governments and shadowy backers, they are trying to save the world – (Sarc off)
Anyone who has been paying attention to the environmental movement has got to conclude it is a collective insanity that has nothing to do with conservation, or caring for the planet, it’s oceans or any life forms including humans!
But don’t forget the real power the movers and shakers behind the scene that are in it for the POWER AND MONEY!
While the USA stands poised on defaulting on its ever-growing debt—the highest in the nation’s history. Obamas – Czars and Chicago Mafia work night and day to fulfill a crackpots green dreams and line their pockets!
While wars & insurrections are waged in the Middle East, across northern Africa, and in the Ivory Coast!
While the Middle East is going in to a tailspin, that has frightening implications for them and the rest of the world.
While radical Islam gains strength from the turmoil and wage a wider terrorism effort at home and worldwide.
While Japan struggles to deal with a major earthquake & nuclear plant disaster & economic disruption that will take years to recover from & negatively affect the world’s shaky economy!
While European nations attempt to deal with their own financial crisis their economy’s are crashing & burning, the Environmentalists/Greens with the collusion of governments engage in the most absurd frauds & nonsense since the Dark Ages!
Environmentalist and governments in the USA & worldwide are devoted to the collapse of every scientific & technological advance of the past century along with the capitalist system that made it possible.
We are seeing a green collective madness with a race to jump of the cliff first in the name of Gaia!
A small but terrifying example is the Australian labor governments – Eco green insanity that is designed to destroy the health and well being of the people and the economy no matter what the cost in the name of Gaia!
We are living in an age were lunatics with university degrees in socialism have risen to the top and any hope of reason has sunk to the bottom!
We must stop them!!!!!
Indigenous people can’t be fooled by numbers. It takes education to be fooled by numbers; the higher the education the higher the gullibility.
@ur momisugly MikeEE
April 27, 2011 at 9:53 am
Responding to H.R.
Howdy, MikeEE. I thought most regulars here would recognize a writing style that includes “unwarrented precision in numbers” “probably” “unprecedented” and a date far out in the future where I’ll be dead and no one will remember what was predicted anyhow.
Does that writing style ring a bell, now? ;o)
From the Gallup Survey
“Survey Methods
Results are based on face-to-face and telephone interviews conducted in 2010 with approximately 1,000 adults, aged 15 and older, in 111 countries. For results based on the total sample in each country, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error ranges from +/- 1.7 percentage points to ±5.7 percentage points. The margin of error reflects the influence of data weighting. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.”
As was blogged about by JoNova, and referred to by Bushy,this survey apparently was done on 1000 subjects distributed over 111 countries. If true, this makes the results laughable. On the other hand, the fact that they were reported at all makes one weep.
I’m a little surprised by this survey in how it relates to Eastern Europe. To my understanding belief in AGW in the Czech Republic was only about 12%. If true I suspect it’s because they’d spent decades living under the boot. It’s not for nothing that Vaclav Klaus compared AGW extremism with communism and declared them both as, ‘anti-human’.
Anyone wanting to laugh at the doom-and-gloomers, should read this article –
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
It’s from Time, June 24 1974, and is entitled:
Another Ice Age?
quotes…
“…Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin’s Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth…
“…Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth’s surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years…
“…The earth’s current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet…”
Sound familiar?
D. J. Hawkins says:
April 27, 2011 at 9:40 am
Aboriginal peoples don’t live at the poles mate. How can a oral tradition say how hot it is if you have no way of measuring the temperature.
Ask the Inuit what they think is happening if you like, they generally agree that the climate is getting hotter.
The anti-CAGW meme is strong in you it seems.
D. J. Hawkins says:
SteveE says:
April 27, 2011 at 8:44 am
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Aboriginal peoples as a rule have extensive and detailed oral histories. If they aren’t aware of what happened in “grandfather’s grandfather’s time” they run the risk of being dead for not anticipating long term changes.
SteveE is indicative of a phenomenon I noticed quite some time ago: People who stay isolated in their “ivory towers” have a tendency to base their beliefs on what they’re told rather than on what they can observe for themselves – simply by stepping outside.
I would be rather interested in seeing the results of a poll of farmers, for example, and their thoughts on global warming.
Without being noticed the Journal Nature ever so slowly is pulling itself out of the AGW scam
http://blogs.forbes.com/jamestaylor/2011/04/27/another-global-warming-crisis-canceled-for-lack-of-evidence/
“Survey Methods
Results are based on face-to-face and telephone interviews conducted in 2010 with approximately 1,000 adults, aged 15 and older, in 111 countries. For results based on the total sample in each country, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error ranges from +/- 1.7 percentage points to ±5.7 percentage points. The margin of error reflects the influence of data weighting. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.”
Average of nine people per country. That tells me that no one questioned the bushman in the Kalahari, that someone mentioned above. He doesn’t have a cell phone nor the signal to go with it, and I can’t imagine someone driving hundreds of miles on indifferent roads to ask him. Those questioned no doubt lived in cities, where even in sub Saharan Africa most people live. The question wording quite clearly introduced error, since there is no provision for indicating disbelief in the warming that is an absolute given. What one can say with confidence, 100% confidence, is that the margin for error is 100%, making the whole exercise utterly futile
TonyG says:
April 27, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Are you saying that it’s not warming then?
Why are Americans BY FAR more skeptical
GISS = USA
UAH = USA
RSS = USA
Hadcrut = UK
3 of the 4 monitors of ‘global temps’ are US based. We know the players and we know the game.
SteveE says:
April 27, 2011 at 12:36 pm
“Ask the Inuit what they think is happening if you like, they generally agree that the climate is getting hotter.”
I’m sure there will soon be a long line of peoples clamouring that Global Warming has affected them, after all wasn’t the UN looking to hand out something like $100 billion a year by 2020 to those affected! (Just as scientific funding biased towards CAGW received massive funding – and we all know how that resulted in huge confirmation bias!)
More bogroll stats.
Well, apparently at least respondents in the USA have not yet been brainwashed by the media here if 47 % think any warming is due to natural causes and only 34% think humanity is responsible. But the big problem I have with it anyhow is why worry about a trivial 1 to 1.5 C per CENTURY rise as the unpolluted satellite data is telling us?
Crisis manufacturing or sleight of hand, either way it’s a game.
For the folks living in Africa & Asia, they have a very long history of being around climate and know what it’s capable of doing. They didn’t survive that many 1,000’s of years just because. They’ve been there, done that.
Oh we are the worst!!
This is, at least partly, due to the CAGW propaganda by NHK (couterpart of BBC) and leftist MSM, quite successful so far.
However, in the blogosphere I notice a clear change since Climategate.
OT, but the current status of the quake aftermath:
The dead/missing people amount to a bit more than 26,000.
Still more than 130 thousand refugees.
So either the US is right and the rest of the world is wrong, or the rest of the world is right and the USA is wrong.
Could be teasing when the answer is finally revealed!
Andy
A few days ago, I posted a link to a similar Gallup poll in “Tips & Notes”. The same authors published the findings two days prior to the findings that are the subject of this WUWT post. I believe the findings of this earlier poll, combined with the poll Anthony cites, give a clearer and more comprehensive view of world opinion on “global warming” (to use Gallup’s terminology):
April 20, 2011
Fewer Americans, Europeans View Global Warming as a Threat
Worldwide, 42% see serious risk, similar to 2007-2008
by Anita Pugliese and Julie Ray
http://www.gallup.com/poll/147203/Fewer-Americans-Europeans-View-Global-Warming-Threat.aspx#1
Here are the questions asked in the poll:
How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?
How much do you know about global warming or climate change?
How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?
A quick clarification to my previous post.
Results to the question “How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?” are presented two different ways. First by region, and then, later, by country.