The “I Can Change Your Mind about Climate” website of the ABC TV in Australia reminds me of the famous phrase “your gonna get your mind right, Luke” from the 1967 classic movie “Cool Hand Luke” with Paul Newman:
The round1 voting, which I talked about here, is over, and the skeptics, listed as “dismissive”, well outnumbered the alarmists, looking to be 2 to 1, as seen in this Google cache image from Apr 26, 2012 11:50:33 GMT, ending with 19,900 votes counted:
Now, they profess to have changed people’s minds with their video and website, and Round 2 voting is open here…the alarmists have a lead.
So for those of you in Australia, no matter which side of the debate you are on, you can vote again.
For expats living abroad, you’ll need to remember your old Australian postcode to vote.
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UPDATE:
Jennifer Marohasy reports that according to Jo Nova, the video interview with the skeptic side mainly ended up on the cutting floor:
“We did 4 hours of footage at our house, and they showed not one single point I made, not one answer to Anna Rose’s questions. I repeated my favourite lines about 28 million weather balloons, 3000 ocean buoys off by heart at least 4 times [which show no global warming and therefore a mismatch between reality and theory]. Obviously everything I said was too ‘dangerous’. But we have the full tape of the whole event, so sooner or later the world will see the parts that the ABC deemed to be not ‘interesting’ to the Australian public. So all in all, pretty much as we expected. They trimmed it down to the point where it’s tame, they gave the alarmists the last word (they always do)…”
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Survey is dishonest – even if you ticked “I believe in the planet warming somewhat” the dismissive profile at the end says you don’t believe in global warming. The survey is also designed to help the re-education campaign by measuring the various connections between believes and attitudes.
The “disengaged” category is silly. They aren’t going to bother voting.
Well, it’s nice to see that the non-CAWG population (Dismissive+Doubtful) are now leading the alarmist group (Alarmed+Concerned) 60% to 35%. Hopefully the Australian government will finally listen to their constituents before they cripple their economy.
(Note that this is my view as a citizen of the USA. I only wish the best for our Australian friends.)
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Poll results to date:
Dismissive 51%
Alarmed 22%
Concerned 13%
Doubtful 9%
Cautious 4%
Disengaged 1%
3723 votes counted
The Australian Government just awarded a major satellite TV contract to the ABC (it was meant to be up for open competitive tender.)
This is just the ABC paying its Master back.
Let’s hope that when the Liberals get into power they de-fund it.
Having looked more closely at the ‘survey’ questions, I suggest that it is one of the most appallingly drafted surveys ever to masquerade as significant (BECAUSE SOME LUVVY BROADCASTER WITH THEIR MOUTH ON THE TAX-PAYERS’ TEAT SAYS IT IS). It seeks, ineptly, to try to categorise respondents along a one-dimensional spectrum.
Am I concerned about global warming? I can do nothing about the temperature changes – up or down, they’re almost exclusively natural [Urban Heat Islands are real; urban sprawl merely looks to be creating an artefact of warming).
Yet I AM concerned about the multi-billion dollar/Euro/Pound waste of resources [does the esteemed Pachauri think that money is wasted?]. So called ‘Green energy’, which boosts the pockets of land-owners, at a cost in subsidy [by tax-payers and consumers of over 50% of the ‘price’].
Purely co-incidentally, we read that the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, erstwhile friend of Rupert Murdoch, has a step-father-in-law [Sam Cameron’s step-father, Viscount Astor] said to be doing ‘nicely’ out of this subsidy.
CAGW is doing huge harm to our industry [China is concerned about CAGW? No.]; our politics, our democracy, our way of fairness and n=honesty in public life.
Now, this survey is important for Australia, and all who have her best inetersts at heart should complete the survey.
But – don’t expect that you will be able to do so without at least one grimace of dislike; Question 2 alone will have many fair-minded people in paroxysms of fury:
“Assuming global warming is happening, do you think it is… ”
I will go away and allow my blood-pressure to fall to merely dangerous levels!
Current results:
Dismissive 52%
Alarmed 21%
Concerned 13%
Doubtful 9%
Cautious 4%
Disengaged 1%
3995 votes counted
Vote here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/survey/
Of the last 260 or so votes, it works out that about 150 were Dismissive, 110 all others. So the “marginal rate” of new votes coming in is about 58% Dismissive. As the numbers build up, this should be the mark that’s approached.
Current results:
Dismissive 51% 2299 votes
Alarmed 22% 987 votes
Concerned 13% 561 votes
Doubtful 9% 404 votes
Cautious 4% 194 votes
Disengaged 1% 37 votes
4482 votes counted
I watched the whole thing. It was painful but educational. The best analogy to discussing Anna Rose is trying to discuss Soviet Marxist-Leninists. It could not be done. They kept dismissing everything in the name of “science” which to them was “Scientific Communism” and “Scientific Materialism” and it explained everything in the world. Any fact, observation, idea or concept that contradicted the axioms of their system was automatically dismissed as “unscientific”.
Anna Rose’s other slander was irritating but I found it most disappointing that Nick Minchin did not call her out when she kept wondering how to convince skeptics to believe in “science”.
It was maddening—just like the smug condescension of every Scientific Commie I’ve ever met. I needed a stiff drink after I suffered through the broadcast because you can only dismiss Anna Rose at your own peril. If you noticed the earnest and intense faces of the young members of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition listening to Anna Rose you know what I mean. I’ve seen such faces before.
The thing is open untill 21.5. What do they want to achieve with that ? To slowly decrease the number of dismissives by organised alarmist votes dripping in ?
Current results:
Dismissive 50% 2480 votes
Alarmed 23% 1120 votes
Concerned 13% 642 votes
Doubtful 9% 454 votes
Cautious 4% 215 votes
Disengaged 1% 42 votes
4953 votes counted
Just to add that votes seem to not being counted from Portugal. I tried a vote for alarmed and dismissive, but both were not counted. The number of votes stayed the same, several minutes after the vote. The votes were done from PCs/IPs where I had never accessed ABC in the past.
It would be interesting if other readers from Australia could test if the vote count goes up immediately after they vote…
Go to: –
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/ for the final tally.
Note – Round 2 results are – ahem – not immediately obvious.
The Sky-Is-Falling-Team’s hammering is [a bit] less obvious including all results.
Highlights: PostShow
Dismissive 49%
Alarmed 23%
Concerned 13%
Doubtful 9%
Cautious 5%
Disengaged 1%
5439 votes counted
Also shows totals [for round one and round two; possibly statistically significant, but I suggest not.
Many of the readership thinks highly of Australia.
let us see if they awaken from their dream [or nightmare] . . . . . . . . .