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ABC1, an Australian TV channel, is planning to air…
I can change your mind about… climate
…on Thursday, April 26th, 8:30 pm. You may click the link above and check the trailer as well as the results of a poll about the attitudes concerning global warming.
When I was taking the screenshot, the “dismissive” group (including your humble correspondent) was covering 52% of the respondents. The number of alarmed respondents is more than twice smaller.
Seems like they’ll have an uphill battle changing those minds. Maybe the Australian Skeptical Science team of warm and fuzzy wombats can rally the charge for a turnaround. 😉
Anthony, stop making me have to wipe organic energy drink off of my Mac monitor.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/survey/
Check out the survey linked above, NO DISTINCTION between anthropogenic and natural global warming there, no way to remain honest and answer the questions. This is the MOST BIASED survey I have ever seen, with the questions akin to Have You Stopped Eating Dog Yet, yes or no.
Unfortunately the latest IB Science guides all have several hours of curriculum statements. of global warming religion that must be taught to our students.
Well I took the survey and got labelled “Doubtful” as I answered “don’t know” to the question of whether GW is happening. The reason being, of course, that it depends on the time scale. But that crucial detail wouldn’t even occur to the creaters of this silly survey.
The poll appears to be still open, so if WUWT readers would care to express an opinion I’m sure the ABC would be delighted to hear from you…
Even with Nick Minchin there, I expect that there will be some propaganda spill by the ABC, and almost certainly there will be some sort of tampering of any post show poll. The ABC are avid backers of the AGW cause/belief/hoax.. Watch for some sort of trap !!!
I expect that the GetUp! mod (a left wing propaganda troop sponsored by the Government and the Union) were very careful NOT to vote in the first poll, but will come out in a swarm afterwards.
Bwahahahahah!
I’m boiling beer and whilst keeping an eye on it, pulled out my iPad to check my email and see what’s happening on Facebook and the rest of the world. Between Treacher hammering the dog thing so hilariously, a lovely walk at a nearby nature preserve, the pleasure of brewing, and this, it’s been an enjoyable Sunday.
Heh heh heh
I think the general population now realizes that the Warmists are cranks.
I took the poll. I’m rated “Dismissive”. It’s easy, only 16 multiple choice questions. Took a couple of minutes. I had to do a search for Australian Postal Codes though, because it asked for one. Didn’t want my out of country vote discarded.
I filled in the poll, actually questionnaire, a few days ago. I think JoNova pointed to it. It takes 15 minutes to complete. OK, 20 if you have to go to the fridge for another beverage 🙂
I just took the survey and wound up as ‘dismissive’, which, it informed me, meant that I didn’t believe global warming was happening, even though I explicitly answered that I thought it was. Sigh. They don’t seem to consider that anyone might think that the world has been going through a natural warming phase, and that this is a Good Thing.
Actually the poll appears to have been highly successful. Remember that this is to be followed by a show and another poll. The game plan is to show how many “dissmisive” respondents can have their mind changed by the end of the show. To this end the poll was rigged. Many reported on Andrew Bolt’s blog that entering lukewarmer or partial believer responses still returned a poll result of “dissmisive”.
Do not trust the ABC. They only produce advocacy journalese on AGW. This propaganda stunt is a sad attempt to lend support to the hoax prior to the green/left carbon tax starting.
I suspect there will be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth when they get the data in. Then there’ll be an ‘adjustment’ of the data to better reflect ‘reality’.
Sounds familiar somehow …..
Smokey says: April 22, 2012 at 2:49 pm
“I had to do a search for Australian Postal Codes though, because it asked for one. Didn’t want my out of country vote discarded.”
More than likely if they get too many out of country IP addresses, then they will simply remove them.
What gives me the impression that ABC are road testing,”Dismissive” as a substitute for , “denier”? And even though I said that I’m certain the Earth has been warming, I still got the standard,”you don’t believe GW is happening” accusatory blurb. I’m off to build a mangonel to hurl frozen oven-ready turkeys at wind turbines as my contribution to Earth Day.
Reblogged this on nebraskaenergyobserver and commented:
Nothing to add, except that the Aussies have figured it out.
Dismissive
Scottish Sceptic,
Yes, I’d thought of that. But being lemmings and thus not too bright, maybe the aren’t checking IP’s. For anyone who needs a code, any 4-digit number starting with 60XX, 61XX, 62XX, etc. up to 67XX will work.
Anyone notice the subtle change from science to polls (aka consensus) lately?
Pointman
Smokey,
You might be able to find a proxy server here.
When this survey first came online about two weeks ago the dismissive and doubtful percentages reached 82%. Since then there’s been a steady decline, and we’re pretty sure that’s due to a concerted effort by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (57000 members). It’ll be nice to see the difference in percentages after contributions by WUWT readers. But please remember to go in and do the survey again in coming weeks.
I have done a screen shot of the poll most days almost since it started so as to watch the trend. At 8500 votes (10th April) the “dismissive” were way ahead (I estimate using a ruler (no numbers appear to be shown) “dismissive” 75%, “alarmed” about 25%). As time went on and more votes came in, the “dismissive” bar got shorter and the “alarmed” bar got longer. Currently with 15910 votes counted “alarmed” is about 50% of the length of the “dismissive” bar (with “doubtful” a bit shorter than “alarmed”). Flicking through the images quickly I can watch the “dismissive” bar shrink and the “alarmed” bar grow, starting suddenly at about 14th April. Almost like someone panicked and started prodding GetUp members. I am watching for a last desperate surge before Wednesday so it won’t embarrass the ABC.
When I took the poll about a week after it started, the dismissive vote was at 68%, however the Warmistas rallied their troops and apparently have narrowed the gap. The ABC used to be a news organisation but has now morphed into a Left Wing Propaganda mouthpiece with declining production standards. SBS has taken over the serious viewing population.
Buahahahaha!
Not even with the most biased survey I ever seen do they manage to get the answers they want. This parrot is dead!! 🙂 ABC brainwashTV must be defunded immediately its an obvious propaganda machine! Poor Aussies
darnn – I’m “dismissive” – who would’ve thunk !