It appears that only the zealots care much about global warming anymore, yet it doesn’t stop them from making grand pronouncements of gloom and doom or taking fossil fueled publicity stunt boat trips to Antarctica.
The Pew Research Center released its annual poll today, and global warming is not only last, it’s last in importance with the public in 22 topics covered. Those who think “Climategate” had no impact, think again.
Plus, energy problems get twice as much attention as global warming as a policy issue. Essentially, global warming is now “dead heat”.
They write in the press release:
As the 2012 State of the Union approaches, the public continues to give the highest priority to economic issues. Fully 86% say that strengthening the economy should be a top priority for the president and Congress this year, and 82% rate improving the job situation as a top priority. None of the other 20 issues tested in this annual survey rate as a top priority for more than 70% of Americans.
Since it was first tested on the annual policy priorities list in 2007, the share of Americans who view dealing with global warming as a top priority has slipped from 38% to 25%. Democrats (38%) are far more likely than Republicans (11%) to rate this as a top priority. But the decline has occurred across party lines: In 2007, 48% of Democrats rated dealing with global warming as a top priority, as did 23% of Republicans.
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“The nation’s energy problem” is 100% artificial and created by regulatory restrictions. We could all have electricity so cheap and plentiful they would be begging us to buy more of it if they just decided to build the plants.
It is always important to think about what is NOT ON the list.
Size of Government
Regulations
Can someone please forward this to Govenor Moonbeam.
I’d like to see the same poll done in California, the happy state of euphoria and AB32 (GHG limitations). Hey, Jerry, and how much PM10 is in medical marijuana smoke? I was asking the Gov, Jerry Brown, not Garcia.
@Stephen Fisher Rasey it’s a Pew poll, they would never ask such questions.
The university where I teach is considering dropping its program in environmental engineering. Reason: For the past 2 years there have been no incoming majors – there are no freshmen or sophomores – and after the two majors that are currently in the program graduate, the program will cease for lack of interest.
Notice how the dollar weakened today and stocks sputtered? Uncertainties over the upcoming elections had an effect. The recent rallies were all about confidence that we should get some sensible leadership.
WUWT has no doubt had an influence on CAGW worries. Maybe now we need to work out the other concerns? Then Zeke might not whine about me being off topics.
With the carbon trading business going bust where is California going to sell it’s carbon credits? Another pie in the sky revenue earning estimate gone. It’s hilarious how many revenue estimates have been wrong for Governor Moonbeam.
I don’t see Hope or Change on the list.
Is this the November 2012 list?
Pew, secretly backed by the chinese governement and tasked with locking up the worlds wild protien and resources i.e. Great Barrier Reef, stopping fishing every where in the world, locking people out of National Reserves, Wild Rivers legislation etc etc.. Oops sorry my tin foil hat has slipped again.
You can only sustain a lie for so long before the majority of a free population sees the truth and in this case AGW looks like it is about as popular as last weeks boiled cabbage.
Unfortunately Australian Universities continue to teach and major in degrees such as the ones you stated noaaprogrammer.
In “unrelated” news…congratulations to Gavin Schmidt and John Cook for receiving plenty of accolades for their work in helping the public understand the urgency of having to deal with climate change /sarc
One can just imagine the determination of those dolts to have AGW have any votes at all.
Now imagine what will happen when someone admits the global warming business is one of reasons economy is bad.
convict;
at noaa’s school, the students voted the pseudo-subject out of existence by not registering for it. I guess your freshmen aren’t as smart??
;P
Brian, In Oz the government is still supporting the CAGW nonsense. Here in the US our Govt is not (although Barky is). Means less visible opportunity.
Mike the convict said @ur momisugly January 23, 2012 at 10:32 pm
I rather thought Environmental Engineering (School of Geology) at UTas had considerable relevance: dealing with human effluent such as sewage, stormwater, acid leaching from mines, waste disposal site management etc. Maybe you think that all this stuff takes care of itself…
Brian H said @ur momisugly January 23, 2012 at 11:15 pm
The last time I checked, the School of geology at UTas was having problems recruiting, regardless of sub-discipline. Obviously “smart” people know we don’t need geologists, mines, minerals, energy etc. Just more lawyers, accountants, economists, documentary film makers, telephone sanitisers, hairdressers…
Meanwhile earlier today:
The Assiniboine Park Conservancy officially opened the International Polar Bear Conservation Centre on Monday.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/01/23/mb-polar-bear-centre-climate-change.html
Displays to teach children about climate change, with alarming interactive video showing a polar bear on a precarious chunk of ice, that appears to be getting smaller and smaller (poor fella might get its paws wet).
The populace has been the court, of the irrational fear of man.
The presiding Justice in this case was the reasoning of man. It is a fundamental practice of man, that we fail. We once conceived a Sun around a flat Earth. Each generation enters the revolving door of ignorance.
What man on Earth has never been mistaken? Not I, not you. Yet each generation of man, believes anew. It is a bias, of the overarching preservation of dignity, that we can omit no wrong.
Our planet, a moon of the Sun, has exists in a bath of space, its atmosphere and oceans are the gifts that gave us life.
Why do men around me, fear the Earth, that created them? Is it the fundamental fragility of man and our inability to control the Universe that leads to thoughts, so fearful, we close our minds and hide in caves.
The first law of science, related the energy in mass. Our ancestors told us it was so, by observational reasoning. Like a rebellious teenager we have rejected this fundamental nature of our universe. It is so, we cannot add more energy to Earth, a script, derived before the evolution of man.
Greenhouse, used in cold Europe for the enhancement of biological life. Why wouldn’t a man, think a analogy, could correlate to the creation of life on Earth, with the atmosphere as it’s vessel? It is a belief without truth.
The enclosure of Earth is it’s atmosphere. The whole of the atmosphere is a window of safety, it protects us from the damaging rays of the Sun.
Radiation cannot enter the mass of Earth, radiation cannot enter the mass of Oceans, radiation cannot enter the mass of Atmosphere. It is the enhancement under pressure of the of the kinetic energy of the Sun that gives us warmth.
Our Atmosphere cannot create radiation, it cannot cannot create kinetic energy, it cannot add extra heat to itself. We are bathed in the temperature of space, it attracts our destiny, Cold.
The truth of this reasoning, has been judged. But they, the gods in white coats, claim deity and cannot be wrong.
It is the inconvenient truth, of the certainty of man to err.
Markus Fitzhenry.
noaaprogrammer says: (January 23, 2012 at 10:06 pm) “The university where I teach is considering dropping its program in environmental engineering.” Etc…
That is indeed positive news. Needs remembering and widely re-broadcasting.
To me it is more positive than the polls heading this topic. Are there more universities doing this? Is there any groundswell?
On a secondary level it is also good to know at least some young people are not having their lives derailed by a false start. (If it is not available they cannot take it.)
It would be interesting, Anthony, to explore this.
Whaddyathink Spock?
Well, it’s dead, Jim, but not as we know it.
No wonder…. there is none (global warming), just check current UAH temps, looks like a full 1C below 2010 Jan same date. I presume this will translate into quite a negative anomaly for January (-0.3C or so)?
My bad; I had assumed Environmental Engineering was part of Geology at UTas. We had lectures and a prac on the topic. It turns out that it’s part of the School of Engineering. I still argue we are better off without cholera, Minimata disease, E. coli in our drinking water etc and that it’s the discipline of Environmental Engineering that deals with such issues.
Note this is not appearing in Google News. I guess those 23 AGW’ers at Google are working hard to keep this news off the system
Common sense and the hip pocket nerve prevail.