Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Google search trends, interest in climate change continues to bump along rock bottom, despite strenuous efforts by alarmists to hype climate issues, in the lead up to the upcoming Paris COP21 conference.
Even Google’s information engineering efforts have failed to stir general interest in climate change. According to Visual News;
Google recently released a beautiful interactive visualization that explores search volumes for phrases related to climate change. Curious to see how “global warming,” “energy” or “oceans” are trending around the world? Google put those and other popular searches on the map, highlighting recent searches and data from 20 cities around the globe.
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The troubling takeaway from these trends? While climate change grows more and more imminent, search volumes for many terms related to it are going down.
People aren’t fools, despite the contempt some politicians privately express for the gullibility of their supporters. A long time ago, a very experienced political campaign director explained a curiosity she had noticed, over her years of campaigning. If you deliver five leaflets, then knock on people’s door to talk about politics, they have no memory of receiving any campaign material. But deliver that magic sixth leaflet, and they suddenly remember who you are. Even when people aren’t really paying attention, there is some kind of threshold, a mental filter, which governs whether people are aware of what is happening.
I suspect that threshold of awareness has been well and truly crossed, with regard to the credibility of nonsensical climate claims of tipping points which never tip, arctic ice which doesn’t melt away, and climate catastrophes which never manifest.
That experienced political campaign director I used to know – I once asked her opinion about climate change. She replied “All this green nonsense – it’s closet racism. They want to deny Africa cheap energy, to keep them poor”.
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Not to worry, dear leftists out there, our colleges and universities are trying their hardest to inculcate good, left thinking (err..feeling) autonamatons….
http://www.americanexperiment.org/publications/commentaries/campus-sustainability-going-green-is-just-part-of-the-plot
The way to capture universities is to control the grants and research agenda.
In US, White House sets that agenda.
I’m afraid many of the commentators here are over optimistic concerning a hoped-for climate enlightenment of the conformist majority of society:
Why should all the common sheeple look after the terms “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” in Google if they get the “right message” infused constantly and without any effort by the MSM ???
and there are still many profiteers out there
I expect an escalation of propaganda PR.
There is nothing more dangerous than the confrontation of belief by knowledge and logic.
Beware cornered animals who have hitched the ride for decades. Career change is not an option.
I have laid claim to a few useful idiots in my neighborhood.
They were initially insulted. But now some bother to ask me.
I am from very rural area. Farmers say to me – “Thanks for writing your stuff in the newspaper.
They want to tax carbon?”
As long as people are experiencing record breaking snow and cold in their regions in the Northern Hemisphere, which has happened for the last few winters, interest in climate change will continue to decline. Let us see if the upcoming El Nino makes any difference.
coming El Nino????
FYI, it’s here.
Regarding hype
This article at Deutsche Welle gives a pretty good impression about a desperate try by Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt to utilize his position as Nobel laureate to hype the Paris thing:
http://www.dw.com/en/nobel-laureates-call-for-action-on-climate-change-at-lindau/a-18559670
“Schmidt was talking at a carefully orchestrated advance press conference on Thursday – all comments embargoed. It was poorly attended by journalists, and that perhaps set the tone for some of the statements by the Nobel Laureates. Later, David Gross complained to DW the media was uninterested in asking detailed questions about the content of the declaration. – It’s a bit difficult to do that when you’re not allowed to see the content. We were set up.
Still, the laureates say it’s in part the media’s responsibility to influence public opinion.”
Regarding the following quote:
“The 2015 Mainau Declaration has a vast majority of Nobel Laureates attending this year’s meeting signing a joint appeal, calling for action on climate change.”
– please note that it is misleading. 36 out of 65 Nobel laureate attendees signed the declaration.
That can hardly be called a vast majority.
My gut feeling is that Schmidt, at that time, expected that many more laureates would sign.
In my opinion, the whole set up was a total fiasco – in many ways.
I Don,t mind continued research or policy around global warming, or cooling for that matter. Just leave CO2 out of it.
Disinterest and indifference is not necessarily a good sign. The fact that most people are ignoring the issue means that they don’t know what is being proposed for Paris this fall, and as a consequence, are not raising their voice against it. The pols are free to pursue their agendas unopposed by the masses.
I wouldn’t go that far. But perhaps it could be said that people don’t remain fools forever. Eventually, most of them will catch on. Politicians who bet on the stupidity of the people get elected all the time. Don’t forget what Jonathan Gruber had to say about how they had to fool the American voter to get Obamacare to pass. They not only fooled the voters but the Supreme Court too.
Considering the scientific understand of climate change on both sides of the issue I would argue that really hardly anybody is concerned about the issue. The media and the political know it alls either have monetary or political interest or just need their team to be right. They could care less what is actually happening or not happening to the environment. Subconsciously I haven’t seen any honest alarmist about melting to death or drowning.
After years of research and trillions of $$ invested a perpetual motion machine have been created that runs on 100% BS. Better known by the slang term, government, it remains the the only known substance in the universe able to resist the Second law of thermodynamics. Using nothing more that pure BS alone, government is is able to take empty the space between the ears and transform it into and endless supply of pure, unadulterated nonsense.
They put the baffle in bafflegab.
I would love to know whether searches for the term “climate scam” have increased recently? Certainly there are far more sites that now respond to this search (excluding the red herring ones set up by warmists).
interest in COP21 is ramping up though…
http://i61.tinypic.com/f3i70x.png
Yahoo search:
Climate Scam = 8,790,000
Climate Lies = 7,750,000
COP 21 = 6,190,000
charting COP21 interest prior to last years Peru boondoggle is meaningless.
That would be http://climate-l.iisd.org/events/unfccc-cop-21/
The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC is expected to take place in December 2015, in Paris, France.
So many refer to alarmists calling wolf! In this set of circumstances, it is the alarmist wolf donning various environmental cover stories and wearing a sheep fleece while calling “Wolf” creating noise and pointing fingers to divert from their own agenda. So handy to accuse others of the things they do in weaving their propaganda.!
Just wait until after this El Niño and the bottom falls out in 2017 or 2018 which is typical after a El Niño event, however those downward spikes have been getting steeper since 1998 progressively.
Solar activity. What prognosis?
http://climexp.knmi.nl/data/isunspots_daily.png
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/solar-cycle-sunspot-number.gif?time=1436161802000
Xie xie ren. Having experienced the late 1970’s and early 1980’s winters in Finland worsened by gloom forecasts of a new glaciation at the time, I need serious convincing about the pleasures of a winter wonderland. Now looking at your chart, another move further south seems timely.
Female and male Russian scientists studied the relationship among “The Total Solar Irradiance, UV Emission and Magnetic Flux during the Last Solar Cycle Minimum” (2013):
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jas/2013/368380/
Abstract
We have analyzed the total solar irradiance (TSI) and the spectral solar irradiance as ultraviolet emission (UV) in the wavelength range 115–180 nm, observed with the instruments TIM and SOLSTICE within the framework of SORCE (the solar radiation and climate experiment) during the long solar minimum between the 23rd and 24th cycles. The wavelet analysis reveals an increase in the magnetic flux in the latitudinal zone of the sunspot activity, accompanied with an increase in the TSI and UV on the surface rotation timescales of solar activity complexes. In-phase coherent structures between the midlatitude magnetic flux and TSI/UV appear when the long-lived complexes of the solar activity are present. These complexes, which are related to long-lived sources of magnetic fields under the photosphere, are maintained by magnetic fluxes reappearing in the same longitudinal regions. During the deep solar minimum (the period of the absence of sunspots), a coherent structure has been found, in which the phase between the integrated midlatitude magnetic flux is ahead of the total solar irradiance on the timescales of the surface rotation.
From this it follows that larger impact on climate can have force of the solar wind (solar protons) and galactic radiation. The solar wind definitely affect to pressure changes over the magnetic poles.
>>I suspect that the threshold of awareness has been well and truly crossed with respect to the credibility of nonsensical climate claims…. <<
I agree with this sentiment. You don't have to be "climate expert" to know which way the wind blows. I've lived in the same house here on the east slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains for 33 years, and this is the first time I can ever remember having to turn my furnace back on in the middle of JULY because the morning temperatures are just a little too cool, low 50s. I've done it many times in the past in mid June but never in July. That kind of thing, plus all of those failed predictions should be enough to convince anyone that the AGW paradigm is just a bunch of horse manure.