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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. 😉
Right from the start with their very first question, “Is global warming happening?”, they inject bias by not referencing a time period thus proving that they take us all for fools or are fools themselves.
Since the last ice age – yes. Since 1998 or the MWP – no.
Their “….do you think global warming will harm….” questions do not specify HOW MUCH global warming they are talking about. 2 degrees? 20 degrees? What?
The question “Which of the following statements comes closest to your view?” should have a “None of the above” answer because none of the ones they offer were close enough.
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Mike M says:
April 23, 2012 at 8:56 am
No, they do define what they mean by “global warming” with a specific time period: “ … global warming refers to the idea that the world’s average temperature has been increasing over the past 150 years, may be increasing more in the future, and that the world’s climate may change as a result”. See my post at 4:33 am above – commenting on the “may be increasing …” etc. bit and on the similarities between the questionnaires of this survey and the recent (and very interesting in view of the findings) American Meteorological Society survey.
Earth Day 2012 – yet another False Spring is rolled back by Old Man Winter in a goodly portion of the US.
Earth day is Lenin’s Birthday. hmm I wonder why that is? Could it be a coincidence?You can bet your life it is not a coincidence.
“School children, businesses, clergy, politicians and even the United States military soon will honor the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union.”
The ABC are web savvy, they can and have blocked duplicate survey entries in the past. Perhaps they intend to produce a report after the second survey saying “xx% of Dismissive respondents answered twice or more”
What would be interesting would be a count of IP addresses that changed their atitude.
The program looks interesting, but the survey is a total waste of space.
RockyRoad says:
April 23, 2012 at 8:23 am
Of course I’m alarmed! Without the sun’s radiant energy, what on earth would this planet’s temperature be? (no pun intended)
And who needs a poll to tell you that?
Zero degrees me!
I think more people are paying attention to their own thermometers,
The last record high here in central Ohio was in 2010. The oldest record high or low was in 1849. I don’t know how long records have been kept here but a little over 52% of the record highs were before 1950. Only a little over 32% of the record lows were before 1950. I’m not a “climate scientist” but it seems to me, that at least here in central Ohio, the hockey slick is pointing in the wrong direction.
jonathon frodsham @ur momisugly 5.53am:
“Pravda on the Yarra”! LOL. I love it.
After completing the survey I looked at the page source and figured out a URL that returns the basic results histogram as below. An easy way to refresh to see how things are progressing.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/inc/vote_central_results.htm
From the page returned it looks like (as another poster suggested) they are going to also do an after-show version as I get the current histogram with “Pre Show” as a heading. Looking at the source of this page you will see the actual response numbers as comments at the end of each bar line.
Have fun
Doug
I’ve been watching the “survey” results for some time now and in the last day the results are magically beginning to shift. The GetUp and WWF crowd are on the final push to ensure the Alarmed category gets a larger score. A few days ago Alarmed was at 19% and been that for a couple of weeks, today it’s at 29%.g
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/survey/
This is the ‘after’ show survey.
Note – it makes a little more allowance now in its summary of type for those who may be mild warmists or believe it is GW but not so much AGW.
Current result here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/
Old survey result (Before) is here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/about/rd1_challenge.htm
Problably best to not go over and mess it up. I did vote in the first one.
Take the ABC climate propaganda survey here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/survey/
Gunga Din says:
April 23, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I think more people are paying attention to their own thermometers,
The last record high here in central Ohio was in 2010. The oldest record high or low was in 1849. I don’t know how long records have been kept here but a little over 52% of the record highs were before 1950. Only a little over 32% of the record lows were before 1950. I’m not a “climate scientist” but it seems to me, that at least here in central Ohio, the hockey slick is pointing in the wrong direction.
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I don’t like it when I find out something I said was factually incorrect. I got the info I based that on from here a week or so ago.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/cmhrec.htm
Today I came across something that says record highs were set here in March of this year. I don’t know when the list I had looked at was last updated so my post is only accurate to 2010. It doesn’t seem to cover the last 2 years. I don’t want to appear to be intentionally trying to mislead anyone.
(But, hey, we’re not talking about tree rings.)
Anthony,
They have restarted this again! Current results are:
Dismissive: 49% 1647
Alarmed: 23% 783
Concerned: 14% 463
Doubtful: 9% 301
Cautious: 5% 159
Disengaged: 1% 29
Might be time for another post. Have WUWT changed their minds?
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