First the story from AP, then we’ll show you how her claim is just bollocks
Clinton wants ‘mass movement’ on climate change
TEMPE, Ariz. — Hillary Rodham Clinton says young people understand the significant threat of climate change and that she hopes there will be a mass movement that demands political change.
The potential 2016 presidential candidate says at a Clinton Global Initiative University panel that young people are much more committed to doing something to address climate change. Clinton says it isn’t “just some ancillary issue” but will determine the quality of life for many people.
The former secretary of state cited global warming as a major issue that students could face in the future.
She made the comments Saturday during an interview with late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel at Arizona State University.
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Readers may recall WUWT’s recent report of the recent Gallup Poll and how climate fared.
New Gallup poll shows climate change near the bottom of things worth worrying about
This is very similar to the survey showing Europeans worrying a lot more about almost all other issues than global warming, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152349665523968
And, environmental worry now is even lower that when Climategate happened in 2009, and is the lowest in over a decade:
Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167843/climate-change-not-top-worry.aspx
And here’s what Gallup discovered about young people:
Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167879/not-global-warming-serious-threat.aspx
The majority of the 18-29 year-olds, 57 percent, don’t see global warming/climate change as a serious threat to their way of life. And, that thinking holds the majority of opinion across the board of age groups.
Clinton’s opinion on this is just more empty-headed rhetoric with no basis in fact.
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Even if her claim was correct, the young tend to be easily deceived and fooled. It’s just more deception from the “Climite Change” crowd.
Perhaps it’s just another fact that the heir presumptive to Obama “misremembered”. For the sake of the World, Republicans, get your act together.
Not surprising. NOTHING this woman says holds up under scrutiny. NOTHING.
The alarmists need to define their terms. I still don’t know if “climate change” and “global warming” are synonymous or if climate change means global warming plus some mythical quality (ineffable, beyond empirical scrutiny).
I modeled this…
Expect no “fact checking” of Clinton’s rhetoric from FactCheck.org nor Snopes.com
We need a movement, all right – of young people campaigning against the corruption of science and the harm already being done to poor people by global warming alarmism.
[Snip] Not president material.
[Civility please. Mod]
Looks like she’s going to run and try to be the next Obama.
I saw a clip of her before Congress when, as the First Lady, she was promoting her health care proposal. (I think that’s what it was.) As best as I can remember, in the context of raising taxes on ammo something like 4,000%, she was asked if she would control peoples behavior through taxes. Her answer was, “I would if I could.”
(If anyone has a link to that, please post it. I’ve looked for it but can’t find it. But I did see it.)
@ch
“The alarmists need to define their terms.”
But doing so would make them falsifiable. Can’t have that….
There is some truth to Hillary’s comment about, “global warming as a major issue that students could face in the future.”
That is, if Hillary’s agenda goes forward, and the ‘defeat global warming!‘ programs divert all sorts of money into subbing solar and wind for fossil fuels and nuclear, young people will inherit a future of much greater poverty, shorter, harder lives, lost hope, and few prospects. And forget about ultimately moving industry off-planet.
So, young people had best be concerned about global warming of the secular religious kind — the kind promoted by Hillary Clinton — because it’s a serious danger for them.
Nothing Hillary Clinton has ever said holds up to even the lowest level of scrutiny. She turned $1,000 investment in cattle futures into $100,000… right. I just don’t recall, I just don’t recall where the Rose law firm billing records are. Then the housekeeper finds them on the coffee table of the Clintons’ living room. What difference does it make, indeed. Her political career launched in a uniquely pernicious symbiosis with the silver tongued liar-in-Chief Bill Clinton. I wouldn’t allow either one of them in my home, I would just as soon sup with the devil. That defines a distinction without a difference.
I’m involved in the local school system as a volunteer. They are teaching our young people that CO2 is pollution and is causing all the warming and humans are entirely responsible.
I gave a talk to 2 different groups of 4th graders the week before last that were studying glaciers in their science class. I discussed natural cycles that caused changes in glaciers in our past, then narrowed it down to the last 2,000 years, then the last 100 years. I showed them graphs of temperature and brought up and related it to CO2. Photosynthesis got some time.
It went well but I felt bad for the 2nd group after leaving. They were dumbfounded to hear this side and I candy coated it in a way to leave politics out, just pure science and it included the fact that CO2 is a greenhouse gas…………..but not pollution.
One boy kept raising his hand and saying “but isn’t planting a tree a good thing!!” as he didn’t know how else to respond with his young, brainwashed mind, even when I would agree with him that planting a tree is a good thing but carbon dioxide is a good thing too.
“Nothing Hillary Clinton has ever said holds up to even the lowest level of scrutiny. She turned $1,000 investment in cattle futures into $100,000… right.”
Lloyd,
Here’s something I posted earlier this month.
http://www.marketforum.com/?id=1249372&ss=met
Young people worry more about their privacy than man-made climate changers.
Most young people worry about NSA spying, “a solid 57 percent of young people between 18 and 29 years of age said Snowden’s revelation about NSA domestic surveillance was definitely in the public interest.”
Pew Survey: Americans More Skeptical of NSA and Snowden
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/pew-poll-snowden-nsa/2014/01/21/id/548036/
What difference does it make?
And still the scare mongering goes on….
UN scientists see grim future if no climate action
AFP By Richard Ingham
Paris (AFP) – UN scientists are set to deliver their darkest report yet on the impacts of climate change, pointing to a future stalked by floods, drought, conflict and economic damage if carbon emissions go untamed.
A draft of their report, seen by AFP, is part of a massive overview by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), likely to shape policies and climate talks for years to come.
http://news.yahoo.com/un-scientists-see-grim-future-no-action-035340842.html
Oh Hillary – what difference does it make any way?
In other news….Liars lie.
Like all generations before, our young will forge a world that… they deserve. We cannot protect the future, nor can we guarantee their freedom. Civilizations will rise and fall accordingly. GK
When the answer to *every* problem is “more power and control,” I suspect the goal is not actually to solve individual problems, but to obtain more power and control.
I recently toured Biosphere 2 which is in Oracle, Arizona and run by the University of Arizona. Over the course of a tour running about 90 minutes for which some 30 people paid $20 apiece, the guide repeatedly harangued us with falsehoods about global warming and carbon poisoning. We were told that by 2050 the global temperature will have risen by 7 degrees and the oceans will be inundating the land (no numbers given), that species will be dying in great numbers, etc etc. There were also anti-capitalist shots (evil developers clearing the mangrove swamps) but those were just icing on the cake of warmist illiteracy being served at what purports to be a serious climate research facility. It would be interesting to know how many tax dollars are going into their budget.
Mike Maguire @11:22
That was a great elaboration of the Clinton futures trading fiasco!
Hillary’s message is part of a very active current campaign driven directly from Washington DC political and media powers to sell the notion that only the government can do something about climate change … of course, from Washington, among other places (London, Berlin, Paris anyone?).
The campaign started in February in earnest, following the so-called State of the Union message. Some aspect of it pops up in our local newspaper 2 – 3 times a week, usually written by some faceless, nameless, automaton whether carbon-based or otherwise.
Ms. Clinton is on board for obvious reasons. She needs the support of the current political and media powers-that-be for her 2016 plans.
As the Soviet Union taught the world … Party-Think is dangerous, very dangerous. George Orwell knew, and warned.
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?!!!!! /sarc
Greenpeace, 10:10 et al have been praying enough on the defenseless in our society. Mass movement is now needed to grant childhood back to children.
And it is doubly ironic – if not iconic! – that the very same “Biosphere experiment” they are exploiting for money IS the best example of an utter failure of the biologists/GAIA /enviro’s “models” failure to even create an artificial environment for even 30 – 90 days.
CO2? They nearly DIED from lack of oxygen as their most basic food plants failed, died, and consumed oxygen decaying! Their food gave out, they couldn’t maintain water, air, and survival without bringing in material from the “real world” (that “artificial” outside materialistic capitalistic world they swore to retreat from) .