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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Why would anyone consider Al Gore an expert on Climate Change. He simply parrots what he’s retrieved from others.
Mike Bromley the Kurd says:
September 8, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Gore built his following on political fad, being that Global Warming was all the rage.
When the public opinion moved on, he lost it. He cannot rewin those whom he lost along the way.
Even worse for Gore, he has no coattails to ride upon, and Tipper left him.
Yes, that makes him dangerous.
How does he now deal with it?
Andrew Harding says:
September 8, 2011 at 11:30 pm
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A good summary.
As the ‘common’ man is forced to dig ever deeper into their pocket to pay for green taxes and subsidies, as fuel bill escalate so that they cannot afford to heat themselves properly and are forced to cut back enduring a cold house during cold winters, and as the economic depression bites harder and harder and it can be seen that many cuts could be avoided by simply putting the green agenda on hold, there will at grass root level be more skeptism of the green agenda and moving away by the populus.
It is easy to look cool and be green until you have to pay for it and rather than appearing cool be forced to endure the cold..
The tide of public perception is turning and this will continue to gain momentum. The politicians are lagging behind public perception but they too will eventually see the light and note that a tipping point has been reached after which the green folly will be abandoned as they scrabble to be re-elected
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What I find rather telling abotu Gore’s latest attempt at publicity is that the only place I’ve seen it mention is…
here.
Not even the BBC, which is fully signed up to CAGW and promoting it at every turn, has a peep about it.
Sorry, Al, nobody cares about you any more.
This Gore person seems deluded by his own perception of his infallible influence. Sadly for him the decline in his following is having an adverse effect on his persona.
In the past with adulating crowds he rose in his own mind to a messiah complex, alas for Al he is now seen more as a buffoon, a person to be mocked and derided in song and parody.
This final overture will probably be his swan song. Bye Al
So, can we infer that the credibility of the IPCC is on equal footing with Al Gore’s?
Nobel Peace Prize 2007
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded jointly to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.
(I still think it’s hilarious that Al got HALF of the Nobel Prize loot and the IPCC had to split their’s [LOL!!].)
Al who?
(only echos)
John
Adams says, “Do you have back reports? It would be fun to graph these and see the trend over the last several years.”
I have the numbers and they show a clear trend upward actually, with in fact a spike upwards in recent years. That is the adjusted data of course with some proxies included, I’ll get around to archiving everything… someday.
Actually I think I lost the original data. But trust me, his popularity is increasing
The most impressive part of this Attitude Adjustment is that it happened without any help at all from mass media. All “news” stories continue to be written by the Carbon Cult, all “entertainment” assumes the CO2 theory is as self-evident as gravity, all “science” magazines devote half their pages to the latest false and invalid epicycle.
It’s a lot like the last decades of the Soviet Union. Pravda and Tass continued to carry the party line, but absolutely nobody believed them.
You’d think the mass media would realize that they’ve already killed their own golden goose, but it’s clear by now that they can’t realize anything. They’ve passed beyond the bounds of sanity, beyond the bounds of normal commercial reasoning.
Another note for Al:
The Climate reality project has been identified as moral panic.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/hrb9701.html
And the mechanism is very simple:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/science/h-l-mencken-on-the-urge-to-save-humanity/
“the urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.”
H.L. mencken
“Dave N says:
September 8, 2011 at 11:25 pm
When someone attempts to rebut mostly with terms like “bullsh*t”, their credibility is likely to plummet.”
Personally I’ve always found “Horsesh*t” to be the more effective rebuttal.
I would not make too much out of public opinion polls. Public opinion is notoriously fickle, and even when the pollsters do a careful job designing and administering the poll questions, the results (IMHO) are “soft” and can quickly change with circumstances.
I suspect most of the decline in the public’s acceptance of AGW theory and agenda is the increasing disinclination to embark in large, costly and economically damaging schemes to slow or halt it. People in the US and other industrial societies are more and more focused on their personal economic circumstances and less and less confident they can afford the cost and disruption the remedies pushed by Al Gore et. al. will entail.
When the economy turns around, I suspect AGW concerns will become trendier. Of course, in order for the economy to turn around, we have to stop flogging it with stupid policies like Cap & Trade, carbon taxes, regulatory strangulation of energy development, etc. Once we escape the immediate situation caused in part by our own stupidity, people will probably embrace another round of the same stupidity, as long as it makes them feel good.
As Churchill summarized his final volume of the history of WWII:
“How the democracies triumphed, and were thereby able to resume the practices which had so nearly cost them their lives”. [ Quotation from memory; don’t hold me to the exact wording ].
— “Put not your faith in the gratitude of princes” [ or the constancy of public opinion ]
PS: The Aral Sea situation referred to by UK Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (comment by “pat” above) is indeed an ecological disaster, but it has nothing to do with Global Warming and was instead caused entirely by stupid Soviet actions starting in the 1960’s to support cotton farming.
I can’t think of a better example to argue *against* engaging in a massive government-run initiative to “fix” Global Warming.
There is no accounting for people who believe in fiction. There were people who believed the movie Apocalypse Now accurately depicted how it was in the Vietnam War. Go figure.
While you might give someone a break on believing the movie how do you give a break to anyone who doubts the impact of the sun on the earths climate yet believes in a snake oil salesman looking for profit?
“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.”
The irony ! Talk about getting your head chopped off by your own weapon!
The tactics was to come up with lots of simple messages about CAGW so that everyone would get it….slogans……and ended up with people seeing through the message….
Public opinion is fickle and can turn on a dime. Remember, our children get 12-years of public school
educationindoctrination before they become old enough to vote.More proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time – at least 24%.
Since Lake Chad’s problems started in the early 60s, it again is not really a poster child for ‘Climate Mot-du-Jour’ and much of its problems are overusing/overgrazing.
Now manbearpig and his associates are planning to flood the net with spam.
“Yes, the latest frontier in online activism has been breached by Gore and the kids over at the Climate Reality Project, who want you to donate your Facebook and/or Twitter account so they can force your friends to be as active as you are in fighting the Green fight.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/09/al_gore_asks_people_to_donate_their_social_media_accounts/
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that just 24% of voters consider Gore an expert on global warming
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Conservatives do not poll……
…they hang up
I’m really sorry to quote Wikipedia, but the Aral Sea climate quote got me interested:
“Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects.”
How is it climate change if they pumped the water out?
Nuke Nemesis says:
September 9, 2011 at 6:01 am
Public opinion is fickle and can turn on a dime. Remember, our children get 12-years of public school education indoctrination before they become old enough to vote.
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Nuke Nemesis,
For me it is fundamentally in doubt that a free society can remain free if most of its education is from state schools.
The situation in that regard is not optimistic. But there are many other aspects of the human condition that make future freedom very optimistic, indeed.
John