US News and World Report is running a poll on whether or not Hurricane Sandy was caused by global warming. Here is the poll results currently:
Since it is open to everyone, no matter what side of this opinion you come down on, see their web site to add your vote if you wish.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/10/30/was-hurricane-sandy-caused-by-global-warming
UPDATE: From reader input it seems this poll is apparently of even poorer quality than one would expect, and allows multiple voting. NO to vote stuffing. Be honest, 1 vote per person please…though, they may allow you to think it was counted. Sigh, what a poor design for a national magazine. In any event none of that vote stuffing please. OTOH this lack of basic input control negates any value the poll may have. – Anthony
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I thought that we should get less extreme weather from global warming. I mean difference between the poles and the equator and all that. Silly me.
Now this really is desperate, desperate stuff. Science by consensus, appeals to authority and votes. Whatever next – scientific papers passed by referendum. It’s good to see that that the dreadfully complicated science of climate is finally making headway and is well understood by the general population.
Hey! I just voted. It’s now 21:04Z. The results have (for the moment) shifed to ~52% against vs. ~47% for!
The poll is narrowing : –
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Subscribe | Contact Us
Was Hurricane Sandy Caused by Global Warming?
47.4% Yes
52.6% No
Definitely caused by a butterfly in Brazil. Bring back DDT!
Update:
Was Hurricane Sandy Caused by Global Warming?
45.89% Yes
54.11% No
Great example of science by public opinion. Next time they should do a poll about whether we can travel at a speed of light – because we sure can make it happen if we all vote for it…
54% for no now.
I only voted once but I got a bunch of dead Chicagoans who will be voting for Obama next week to vote on the climate change survey.
Well, that settles it!. Let’s have polls to decide if people evolved or were created. Let’s have a poll to decide if we can travel faster than the speed of light!
Think of the money we will save! No more expensive research! We just take a poll!
“Since it is open to everyone, no matter what side of this opinion you come down on, see their web site to add your vote if you wish.”
Only if this additional question is asked if answering yes to the question:
“If you were to realize that storms are actually stronger when it is colder high in the atmosphere than when it is just merely warmer at the very surface would you change your answer to the question above from yes to no?”
Then I would take the poll. Otherwise it is just more manipulated propaganda seeking a tainted and meaningless ‘consensus’. Same o’ same o’.
On the linked USNews.com page is “Poll: Half of Republicans Believe in Global Warming” suggesting that they consider pubies different than demos, and that they are not both progressive political philosophies.
See Hillsdale College’s on-line and free Constitution and Western History lecture series. They make clear the anathema to the Founding Fathers’ Constitution and vision that is progressivism.
Now it is 44% yes and 56% No
Merovign says:
October 30, 2012 at 1:50 pm
A poll. That’s kind of taking “consensus science” to a ridiculous extreme, isn’t it?
Online poll suggestion: Do dinosaurs still roam the Earth? Yes / No / Don’t Know
Well, dino-birds do – for what that’s worth.
Not sure about ‘Climate scientists’ – there area number – but not every one quoted in the MSM as a CS is – well – a scientist, I guess.
And, no – I’m not voting on this ‘poll’.
The one from Oz was so embarrassing back in April [did we ever hear about that and the Team’s 40% to Sanity’s 59 +?]
All Hallow’s Eve tomorrow. Bonfire Night on the 5th, and Remembrance Sunday on 11th.
Time to remember . . .
The Creed:
global warming is real at a level of 0.75 +/- 0.2 degrees centigrade
man made global warming is real (there MUST be a difference between 2.5 billions to 7 billions in between 1960 and 2010)
carbondioxide is capable of absorbing infrared radiaton
carbondioxide is capable of releasing infrared radiation
carbondioxide is essential for life as known on earth
carbondioxide is not an air pollutant
man made global warming is not responsible for weather phenomenas – THUS FAR (and most probably not in the near future)
petroleum is the most valuable commodity to preserve futural sustainable development of mankind – we should be careful wasting it!
nuclear power plants are unpredictable to handle!and there is no solution to handle nuclear waste in a safe way, thats why it is impossible to predicti future costs.
“green economy” isn’t devlish, but it is misguided by the Mann’s, Hansen’s, Trenberth’s, Rahmstorf’s and Schellnhubers’s of the entire world.
I’m with the tough people of New York and all those facing the riscs of of life on earth – a never ending struggle – i suppose!
Great Blog here
43.74% Yes, 56.26% No at the moment
I’m telling my Brother. He’s from Chicago…it will by 90% NOT CAUSED by Global Warming by 10PM this evening. (Heh heh heh, he doesn’t even have to be dead to do that!)
At almost 55% for No now. Took the time to read some of the comments at the bottom of the page and wow!! is all that I can say.
Perfectly understandable since by definition 50% of the population have below average intelligence. Add to that a decade long popular media propaganda blitz and skewed teaching in the schools and I am not surprised. Appalled yes, but not surprised.
Larry
surely this is worth a government grant to ‘Study”?…… Arghhhh
http://justmeint.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/for-crying-out-loud/
JIMBO – Now this really is desperate, desperate stuff. Science by consensus,
Science by concensus is what we already have I believe if we listen to the IPCC and all those other seriosuly deranged goof-balls out there.
This shows why Democracy is a very bad idea and why the people who started the US designed a Republic.
Climate scientist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research apparently thinks it is “C”: Nobody knows and their lying if they say they do.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/features/2012/hurricane_sandy_and_climate_change/hurricane_sandy_and_climate_change_trenberth_of_ncar_on_dangers_to_coast.html
Results just in
42.47% Yes
57.53% No
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/10/30/was-hurricane-sandy-caused-by-global-warming
Whatever the final result this poll is meaningless as to the cause of the hurricane. Ahhhhhh!
Let me state some scientific truths:
Hurricanes this strong have never been recorded in human history.
Hurricanes are getting more powerful.
/end SARC
Sheeesh.
Should, of course, be, “they’re lying”
We are now at
A 42.47% Yes
B 57.53% No
but I wonder if nature is ever going to listen to a poll