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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. 😉
There is only one professional scientist in the federal parliament, Dennis Jensen. He is also a global warming sceptic. So, of course he never gets on TV or quoted in the media.
Accuweather website on global warming
“Earth was cold enough 20,000 years ago for an ice sheet to extend from the Arctic to the midwest United States. The major difference in the planet between then and now is a comparatively trivial difference in the amount of energy received from the sun. This small difference, however, triggers processes within the climate system that amplify its effect.”
Website page may change
Jenn Oates , why are you boiling beer ? It’s much better cold , IMHO .
The ABC is full of climate heaters BUT the management are committed to open discussions and in the last few years they are trying to bring balance into their online sites (The Drum and Opinion being two of them). The traditional left wing climate heaters are there in large numbers which makes for interesting posting, they are shocked that ‘their’ ABC would allow such attitudes as climate change denial.
The survey is poor to pathetic but it is a government station after all. The results will stand and I don’t believe they will tamper or place a bias on the program or the survey results. After the show there is a Q & A program where views are expressed and that should be worth watching.
Pity they didn’t do the show and survey BEFORE the carbon tax of $23 a tonne was put through both houses by the left wing Labor (note the American spelling?) Party.
Accuweather needs to check its theories. Some say the reason has to do with trade winds changing oceanic conditions to cold patterns that eventually led to very severe cold weather systems building up fresh water ice damns along the major river systems of the great lakes and above Missoula, Montana. It probably occurred in Siberia as well. Year round sea ice bridges may have also occurred at the poles, changing oceanic circulation patterns as well.
Its now at 52% dismissive but add doubtful maybe 65% or so. Re Accuweather climate center should be put in the warmist crank area. Good ol Brett has been told to toe the line… LOL BTW above ther is no global warming see here> Official NASA site
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_March_2012.png
What do you expect, people… James Delingpole is visiting Australia right now.
FD
I was ‘Doubtful’. It informed me that I haven’t studied the issue very much. This was despite my answer to the contrary.
LIke was suggested above – the results of this ‘poll’ were likely determined before the questions were even written.
And.. both NH and SH are normal according to those MOST supporting warming my hats to CT they are now facing the music Woaa wait a minute look what CT has done so they are not prepared to accept defeat LOL
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.365.jpg AW have you got a copy of previous CT NH graphs urgent!
The’ve changed the graph so you cannot see this
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png unfortunately for CT and co the Scandinavians tend to be very honest and would not be prepared to try to deceive
Notice the graphic in the background. Funny how they put the one green energy solution — nuclear power — on the side of the mean old conservative skeptic, eh?
Looks like normal CT graphs are back. What happened?
Looking at the survey questions – heavily biased with no real options – seems you can vote twice – but nothing to say if that cancels your earlier poll! I think that is a rigged polling process to make it a black or white choice. My guess is that there are organized groups set to swamp the poll after the program to prove a change. Suspect Getup (350.0rg style clone) and government poll watchers have their hands firmly on this. I would not be surprised to see a huge turn-a-round (change of mind) recorded after the program screens.
So much dirty political work going on in the background in Australia, the liars are determined and willing to do anything, in the vain hope they wont be destroyed in the next election. The Greens will do anything it takes to gain the upper hand (power), as if they don’t win that extra ground they will self destruct in the scatter for answers and issues.
The losers will be the Australian people if they dumbly stand by and don’t start demanding answers rather than the spin we get served up as climate science.
The poll was running at about 67% dismissive for a long time. I think that the ABC was planning to use this to re-launch the alarmist message and saw how the number we looking and have recently tried to mobilise some “correction” in the voting. Lets see how the WUWT readers can really change the numbers. Many JoNova readers have already voted on this poll.
“Dismissive” gives the impression that skeptics will not engage in conversation. Hmmmmmm, …..
P Walker, I’m boiling it because that’s how you make it–in a couple of weeks I’ll bottle it, and a couple of weeks after that will come the cold drinking part, although not by me, as I don’t like it. If anyone happens to be in King City over Memorial Day weekend, however, you’re welcome to drink some too. 🙂
Sorry for adding CO2 to the atmosphere, though. My bad.
Looks like they have hobbled the survey – I can’t get past question 15 now, not given an option to move to question 16 – whatever that was??
Oh, I’m evidently dismissive as well. Duh.
“You fall in the 52% of Australians, who’ve taken this ‘climate challenge’ who are Dismissive of global warming.”
Jenn Oates says:
April 22, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Dang! I knew I should have added ‘beer making’ to my wedding vows!
The likelihood of the Australian ABC being even handed about anything to do with climate change is zero.
This will turn out to be propaganda for the ’cause’.
The beauty is that it doesn’t matter…they are preaching to a dwindling band of the converted.
I guess at least this survey isn’t as “loaded” as some others have been. As usual though, not enough of the right questions, resulting in misleading profiling.
As others have said, it makes those who disagree with “them” unwilling to engage in conversation, which is total nonsense, and somewhat ironic.
Took the survey…I’m a Dismissive. Didn’t know what that meant till I read their definition.
I think it would be fun to run a similar survey about the laws of gravity or the dangers of dihydrogen oxide to see what the consensus says.
Jenn Oates says:
April 22, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Sorry for adding CO2 to the atmosphere, though. My bad.
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Renewable starting materials Jenn. You’re not guilty.
As usual, not one iota of science in the survey or in the film trailer