From the United Nations “MY World” initiative, which has recorded the opinions for All Countries & Country Groups with votes of 7,679,273 at the time of this writing. They describe it as:
MY World is a United Nations global survey for citizens. Working with partners, we aim to capture people’s voices, priorities and views, so world leaders can be informed as they begin the process of defining the next set of global goals to end poverty.
The data collected so far is telling, at least about opinions surrounding global warming aka climate change. It is dead last in the list of concerns queried:
This next graph is even more interesting:
Source: http://data.myworld2015.org/
It too shows “action taken on climate change” as dead last among all age groups, gender, and education, but there are three curious columns on the right where it doesn’t come in last, but comes in low. These are the countries where people live that have medium to very high “HDI” which stands for Human Development Index.
Note that in these countries (medium to dark blue), people already have the things in place that come in lower than the climate change, so they tend to take them for granted. Countries that have a high HDI have reliable energy, Internet access, political freedoms, and social programs, so it is no wonder these sorts of things come in as lower concerns in medium to high HDI countries. These countries also tend to have a population that has people economically free enough to worry about things like climate change, whereas in some countries, you can’t get electricity or get on the Internet to read the latest doom and gloom being spewed by MSM outlets like the Guardian.
h/t to Dr. Ryan Maue
Get ready Paris the UN climate big show is coming to your city. They carry the malodorous, stinking, fetid, putrid, corpse of “climate change” to every meeting………
Their heavy propaganda is having an effect, but not much. That would explain the renewed push for kids to be separated from their parents and placed into government schools, where they would literally be brainwashed to accept the central government cult.
Has everyone heard…it’s snowing in Australia, with some reports of record cold!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3164576/Let-SNOW-Australia-wakes-wintery-blanket-white-stuff-vaguely-cold-Sunshine-State-gets-dusting.html
Looks lovely. I’m sure that it was caused by Climate Change, which in turn is surely due to increased CO_2 in the atmosphere because everybody knows that without this climate is a stationary process and never changes. It’s probably Antarctic Air being pulled north by the ravening El Nino, for example — all part of the warming of Antarctica.
Sadly, the snow covering the roads has confused the drivers and they are all driving on the wrong side. Somebody’s going to get hurt, driving on the left like that. Seems like a communist conspiracy, driving on the left.
rgb
C’mon, rgb! It’s Australia and you’re in the NH.
Stand on your head and look at the cars on the road again… OK… see? They’re driving on the correct side of the road after all.
Doesn’t explain the Brits, though. That still remains as one of life’s little mysteries.
The British drive on the right side of the road that happens to be the left. 🙂
This comes from applying the rules of the sea to vehicles on land, Pass starboard to starboard (both on the left of the carriageway , overtake on the starboard side of the vehicle being overtaken (the side with the green light), give way to traffic coming from the starboard side (with their port -red- lights toward you)…etc etc.
“Ian W
July 17, 2015 at 9:14 am”
Nope. This “left right” thing is all to do with how one mounted a horse and wore a sword. As for “overtaking”, moving in to the right lane passing those to the left. Rules are clear. However, if some driver (And Police man) who happened to be “road rule challenged”, happend to be driving at 65mph in the middle lane of the, say M3 (UK), it is completely within the law to drive at 70mph in the, so called “slow lane”, and thus “undertaking” anyone driving at 65mph or less in the other lanes to the right. I have been pulled over by Police about this and have been taken to court and the case was thrown out for Police stupidity! Any road user should study the rules and the laws applied to it, otherwise you will be fined for doing nothing outside the law.
Of course, being “nicked” for driving at 101mph just outside Newbury on the M4 (UK), is another matter…*ahem*…
It doesn’t matter anyway. The British are always right.
Patrick,
If you’d only started braking a few moments sooner you might have got that down even more…
The roads death and injury toll per head is far worse in the US than it is in the UK, in fact there aren’t many countries that have a better record than the UK.
“Will Nelson
July 17, 2015 at 12:18 pm”
No need to break, just lift off of the loud pedal.
Snow in northern Australia. Gosh!
Last winter it snowed in Saudi Arabia. Double Gosh!! It made the news because the Wahabbis warned children not to make snowmen or risk dire punishment (apparently snowmen are images = doubleplusbad in Wahabbiland). Have a heart, those of you who feel so burdened by the torrent of fake sh*t from AGW alarmists. Saudis have real sh*t to put up with.
The U.N. needs to take a lesson from NOAA. If you don’t like the numbers “Adjust” them.
Send in the data adjustments team. This is big money on the line here.
Reliable energy is quite a bit more important than CC. I don’t like the UN polling citizens, though – it is part of their intrusion into elected government.
I’m suspicious also of the discontinuance of reporting on sea ice by several countries in this the Paris decision year. Do they have a big ice recovery buster in the works to spring on us? Anyone know what Norway, Japan, etc. are up to?
I notice Cuba is dark blue so you can guess how they set the HDI.
This survey is an attempt to show the citizens that they are taken account of and that their issues actually really, really, honestly matter to the elite.
Global Governance will soon sort out those democratic dreams.
Democracy? Isn’t that the thing that should be temporarily suspended while the smart people sort out all the stuff that’s wrong with western societies?
This is why the public is not concerned with global warming.
There is no global warming problem to solve. The planet resists rather than amplifies forcing changes. More than 75% of the warming in the last 30 years was due to solar cycle changes. The planet is about to abruptly cool which will bring an abrupt end to the cult of CAGW madness.
The real problem/issue is forced spending of limited public money (percentage of shrinking GDP and all of the developed countries are running yearly deficits and hence of run out of money to spend on everything) which we do not have on green scams that do not work, do not significantly reduce CO2 emissions but do triple the cost of electricity. All the pain for no gain.
It is pathetic that the cult of CAGW and the many green leaches are pushing green scams that do not work for basic engineering and economic reasons.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-renewable-energy-fantasy-1436104555
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/
It is pathetic that no one in the media and/or in the Democratic party has gotten to the bottom of the green scams.
It is pathetic that no one in the Democratic party and/or the media has the guts/integrity/courage (We need Heroes) to speak the truth.
The green scams fail without including the cost and energy input for battery systems. The costs and energy input for battery systems are never discussed as the cost and CO2 ‘savings’ calculation becomes ridiculous, absurd if battery systems are included.
1)The number one pathetic analysis fact is the CO2 saving calculation does not include the CO2/energy required to construct the green scams and the reduce grid efficiency which is a consequence of forced on/off/on/off/on/off hydrocarbon back-up for the green scams. There is almost no energy savings and almost no CO2 savings from using green scams if the calculation is unbiased, accurate.
2)The number two pathetic analysis fact is due to fact one, it is not possible to say reduce CO2 emissions by let say 40% using green scams, regardless of how much money is spent. We are at point A in CO2 emissions, can never get to point B in CO2 emissions with the green scams. CO2 savings decrease exponentially as more green scams are added and cost increase exponentially. The green scam plan does and cannot work.
Comments:
A fundamental error/scam in the calculation and discussions is the cost comparison is not ‘green scam’ vs hydrocarbon, as 100% hydrocarbon backup is required in addition to the green scam. ‘Investing’ in green scams mean doubling the installed power equipment to power the grid, in addition to more power lines as power must move from region to region.
The second fundamental issue which is not understood by most people is implications of the fact that wind speed varies independent of load requirements.
The power generated from a turbine varies as the cube of wind speed and can vary 30% in less than an hour and does vary from 0 to 100%. As a power system must always be balanced when the wind blows other power sources musts be shutdown and then restarted and then shutdown and then restarted and then shutdown and so on.
The wind power scam is power is rated as nameplate power which is the maximum output of the wind farm. Germany average wind power output is less than 20% of nameplate.
As the amount of wind power increases it is no longer possible to use high efficiency combined cycle power plants for base load. This means if a country mandates wind power at a certain breakpoint there will be a net increase not decrease in CO2 emissions, as it is no longer possible to use high efficiency combined cycle power generation (20% more efficient than a single cycle gas turbine) that takes 10 hours to start and hence cannot be turned on/off/on/off/on/off.
The last part of the green scam, scam is that the calculations do not include the cost and energy to replace the worn out wind turbines (wind turbines and supports have a life time of 12 to 15 years) and battery systems (battery systems have a life of around 7 years and degrade as they age.)
If global warming ranks last as a concern to “My World”, then I would like to know with whom global warming ranks first?
Seems to me that that would yield a diminishingly small list. A list that would be worthwhile making, you know, for future purposes. Then I would like to correlate the membership in that list with, income, zip code, profession, political affiliation, education, alma mater, fascist affiliations, # children, religious views, JFK assassination and vaccination views, Lewandowsky where are you when we need you?
Unfortunately, this will just lead to more “See, the Koch brothers are outspending us!!! Give us more moolah!!!!” from Big Green. Just watch…
This just in….. The IPCC just released a report stating that 97% of those polled mismarked their responses.
After careful consideration and the reassignment of all hanging chads – CAGW is, in fact, in a dead heat with phone and internet service.
This is actually bad news. People aren’t concerned about climate change also means people aren’t concerned in regard to what the politicians are going to DO about climate change. Both climate change and the proposed mitigation schemes seem like far away things that have no direct bearing on their immediate lives. They don’t understand or care about climate change because they see no direct impact on their lives, and they don’t care about Paris because they don’t see any direct impact on their lives. By the time they do, it will be too late.
We need to stop debating the science. We long ago won that debate, that’s why the other side never shows up. What we need to start debating is what the price of gasoline, electricity and food is going to be if stringent mitigation options are committed to. After the deal Obama just negotiated with Iran, Americans should be woken up to the stupidity this president is prepared to sign your country up to.
Gasoline at $20 per gallon? That’ll get their attention. Hopefully before someone signs anything in Paris because “after” will be too late.
The strange thing is that these people want to take away our political freedom in order to force their climate change agenda on us.
It’s very disappointing that freedom is near the bottom of the list. I’m very, very suspicious of anything done by the UN. It’s not at all certain that the survey is a valid representation of people. For example, can people vote more than once? Can they select multiple choices? How were the questions asked? Why are they asking for action? While it’s nice to see global warming at the bottom of the list, I think it’s meaningless without more analysis.
Why haven’t they cooked the books on this survey yet?
Someone ought to screen-capture results across time. When the late boxes come in to be counted, elections can often swing quickly!
So vote! I did. It’s easy. People who oppose CACC/CAGW care, and there are a lot of them. People who support the bottomless barrel of pork, however much they hope for it to never end, are very much in the minority.
Simple arithmetic. A few people want the money of many people, drawn at the expense of things that really matter, like ensuring equal opportunity for all through education, ensuring all children have a chance to live and thrive by providing them with clean water and sewage systems, and so on. The stupid, expensive, pointless programs don’t stand a chance in a real-world election.
rgb
It doesn’t matter what the majority of the people think. The people in charge will continue to do whatever they want regardless.
The Guardian had this poll as their headline on their homepage. After they realized that AGW came bottom of the list, they deleted it completely. It is not even in their Environment section.
The scariest and most disappointing item is the very low concern about Political Freedoms — 4th from th e bottom.
You can see those polled with the most to gain from grants and kick-backs are polling highest.
When listed among basic human needs and fundamental human rights issues, climate change comes out last. However, when listed as a global threat, it comes out first:
http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/07/14/climate-change-seen-as-top-global-threat/
Let’s have a little fairness in reporting here, Anthony.
Let’s have a little fairness in reporting here, Anthony.
Yes Barry, let’s. Neither basic human needs nor fundamental human rights are included in the categories of the survey you cite. The categories are Climate Change, Global Economic Instability, ISIS, Iran’s nuclear program, Cyber Attacks, Tensions with Russia and Tensions with China. Not all of the questions were asked in all countries. When broken down by country, the poorest and least educated were the ones that cited climate change as top of that poorly constructed list. The richest and most educated didn’t. Funny that. In fact, the only place where climate change appears number one is in the chart of median concerns.
It is a contrived presentation of statistics at best, and certainly doesn’t support your claim.
Barry, do you realise that the Pew Research Center poll that you are linking to does NOT compare Climate Change to the same things (in fact Climate Change is the only topic which is common to both polls), and that it has less than 50 thousand respondents instead of more than 7 million? And do you realise that they oublished the poll on July 14th despite they stopped collecting responses two months ago, in May? A dirty-minded person may come to think that the poll itself is some kind of political stunt carefully designed to have the greatest impact possible as we approach the Paris meeting, despite the Pew Research Center define themselves as non-partisan (go figure).
Environmentalism is for rich people. We all know that.