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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Thanks for that. I haven’t listened to The Smiths in over a decade. Cool, 80’s era music.
Hillary
You should worry more about giant asteroid impact than climate change. Do you know that (geologic) historically earth gets hit by giant asteroids every 10 million years? The last one occurred 65 million years ago. Yup that killed the dinosaurs. We are long overdue for the big one. NASA has identified 90% of near earth asteroids but the 10% unknown can end the world before atmospheric CO2 doubles.
“… she hopes there will be a mass movement that demands political change.”
Don’t we all !
She was probably the second or third brightest person in Obama’s cabinet, after the Housing Secretary and maybe the UN Ambassadress.
An elitist driven “mass movement” usually means raising a rabble to stick on your opponents, a la Cultural Revolution. Wait a minute, aren’t the greens already demanding that?
Why are most of our politicians such total prats? IMHO they have expended so much of their limited mental abilities climbing the greasy pole that they have naught left to think with when they reach the top.
Branded a Guardinista reject now it seems, the kiss of death even in demonic zeitgeist circles 🙂
What john robertson said.
Concur with Pat Frank @ur momisugly March 23, 2014 at 11:15 am
“Clinton says it isn’t “just some ancillary issue” but will determine the quality of life for many people.”
Yes, if one does what Clinton proposes, it will adversely effect the quality of life for many people for a very long time. Well, those people that it doesn’t kill, that is.
Pandering is the reason why many youth disbelieve what elders tell them when done in such a smarmy sickeningly sweet kisses fashion. Worse, when the Earth itself eventually proves the attempt to overwhelmingly deceive, the ability to attract that vote is harmed for generations.
Lloyd Graves says:
March 23, 2014 at 11:16 am
Nothing Hillary Clinton has ever said holds up to even the lowest level of scrutiny.
That is simply not true.
Didn’t she say something along the order of “Bill is a loving, faithful husband”?
Oh, wait…. never mind.
🙂
It’s simply a channelling of the JFK Peace Corps speech. Every democrat Presidential wannabe channels JFK. But they always come up short since they don’t have the backing of Daddy Rumbucks.
Anti Science: Those who wish to debate climate science threatened with death of jail: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-03-23/anti-science-those-who-wish-debate-climate-threatened-death-or-jail
I take this as a serious sign that the climate scare monger are out of arguments but prepared to grab for totalitarian measures to get their way.
We are at war and this includes bitches (from The Bitch is Back bumper sticker) like Clinton.
Isn’t this the lady (back when she was First) who pined for a mass movement to impose government mandated health care? And how has that worked out?