Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Forbes reports that, according to Google search statistics, the world’s media climate blitz has failed to date to spark any interest in global warming.
According to Forbes;
The graph above shows relative web search interest in the two terms, demonstrating that interest in global warming decreased substantially in mid-2010 and by mid-2013 dropped equal with searches for climate change, exhibiting a more than ten-fold decrease in public interest. Searches for climate change increased from 2006-2010, but in the last three years have been stable at their early 2005 levels. Put simply, the public simply isn’t searching about the topic anymore, suggesting they either aren’t interested or they feel they already know what they would like to know about changing climatic conditions. Google News searches exhibit a nearly identical downward slope suggesting that the public isn’t searching for the latest breaking climate news either, indicating an overall decreasing interest in the topic.
On the other hand, even if public interest is waning, media coverage certainly isn’t.
Out of interest I modified the original Forbes search terms (see the Forbes article for the original), to produce the graph at the top of this page. The modifications were adding the terms “COP21”, “COP 21” and “Paris Climate Conference”, and ticking the box to include Google’s search forecast for the next few months. Click here to see the Google big data web page.
Forbes reports there are a few exceptions to this general complete lack of interest. Small impoverished island states and some third world countries, which have been blitzed with dubious predictions of imminent climate catastrophe, and bombarded with empty promises of climate cash, are showing strong interest in climate issues. I suspect interest will rapidly wane in the wake of the upcoming Paris conference, when they realise it has all been a load of hype.
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Maybe the gloom and doom prediction” box is empty?
At long last.
Well, I’m going to say it, even if no-one else will.
We’re doomed.
We were doomed about 17 years ago – I’m still here.
Life ends eventually for every human–is that how we’re doomed?
The sun will eventually engulf the earth–is that how we’re doomed?
More people have been lifted out of poverty because of capitalism than ever–is that how we’re doomed?
You say “we’re doomed”, RoHa–would you mind explain just how we’re doomed?
Look at whatever your local media are whipping up a panic about. That’s how we are doomed.
@RoHa
yr: “We’re doomed”
Well RoHa, if “We’re doomed” then, just maybe, it’s because our betters, WHO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE URGENCY OF THE MATTER!!!, and who have been forever pushin’ their “world-has-a-fever”, scare-mongering hype, never chose, at the same time, to PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACHED!!!NEVER CHOSE TO LEAD FROM THE FRONT BY INSPIRING PERSONAL EXAMPLE IN MATTERS OF CARBON REDUCTION!!!
And so, RoHa, all the hive’s little-“sharpie”, wheedling, doom-butt, bogey-man, “greenwashed” flim-flam, rolled out as pretexts to pick the pockets of us coolie-trash, nobody hoi-polloi, came accross to us–“us” being, again, “us peons”, whom t the hive holds in such contempt, and is so anxious to fleece and boss-around and put through a Gaia-friendly mass-cull–as just the agit-prop, Gruber-tested, rip-off flackery of yet another of the hive’s never-ending, dystopian hustles. I mean, like, let’s be honest, RoHa, you hive-tools are such transparent bull-shitters, right, guy? And that’s the real problem, RoHa, as if you didn’t know.
P. S. It seems you’ve got hive-connections, RoHa. So could you ask some of your brazen-hypocrite, carbon-piggie, good-comrade enablers, in on the deal, to lift their sucking snouts from their flunky-grade troughs long enough to calculate the “dead baby/dead polar bear equivalents” that the up-coming, COP 21, CO2-spew hive-swarm will cost humanity and the biosphere? And did you ever happen to consider, RoHa, as you stew in your “We’re doomed”, worry-wart juices, that all the hive’s incessant eco-confabs could have been and could be easily held as a zero-carbon (i. e., zero “dead babies” and zero “dead polar bears”) video-conferences? OH!!!THE HUMANITY!!!
P. P. S. I get the impression from your very last comment that you may have been speaking ironically in your original comment, RoHa. If so, and if my comment, here, is a figurative “shoe” that doesn’t fit, then, please, my apologies, RoHa, for tryin’ to jam your out-size tootsies into such a dainty, glass slipper. Regardless, there are plenty of hive-hoofs that the “shoe” does fit and their owners know, only too well, who they are.
Talking of what the media have been whipping up in to doomsday scenario…they’ve been doing that since the 18th century. And people STILL fall for it!
Dear mike,
It was sarcasm. Don’t get trolled by some simple sarcasm.
@Hugs
Yr: “Don’t get trolled by some simple sarcasm.”
Two things Hugs:
-There is nothing about RoHa’s original comment that is suggestive of “sarcastic trolling” (not even a “sarc” tag). Indeed, the comment reflects just exactly the mentality of your basic-issue, brainwashed, hive-abused true-believer (usually some socially-incompetent, snot-nosed, “dumb”-kid dork)–so it could very well have been a serious-minded, Gaia-freak comment (“kokoda”, “RockyRoad”, and “Patrick” also didn’t “get” that RoHa’s comment was just “sarcastic trolling”, I note).
-On the other hand, RoHa’s second comment suggests the possibility that RoHa’s first comment was ironic in character–which I already considered in the “P. P. S” portion of my above comment. But I only viewed RoHa’s second comment just as I was about to hit the send button and launch my “rant”. And I didn’t want to waste my “rant”. So I just threw in that little, precautionary “P. P. S” business and let fly.
Understand, Hugs, I like screwin’ with the hive and my vehicle to do so–my shtick, such as it is–is “rants”. And if some “sarcastic trolling” (as you term it), inspires me to a little, hive butt-kicking, in which I amuse myself, if no one else, then why should I not use “sarcastic trolling” as the take-off point for a self-indulgent riff, that rubs the good-comrades’ noses in some uncomfortable-truths?
Not quite sure, Hugs, but is all that “friendly” advice, you offered-up in your above comment, really just you guilelessly helpin’ out an ol’ buddy, or is it, on the contrary, more along the lines of a weasley, little-sneak, passive-agressive smooth-move, on your part, designed to slip me a clever-lad, booger-flick “put-down”? If the latter, then “STUFF IT, HUGS!!!” And if not, then thank you for your lovely comment, Hugs, and its useless counsel, that is so very, very important to moi.
Mike, sit down and take some slow, deep, breaths. Then go and have a cup of tea.
“We are doomed as doomed can be” ~ Pee-wee Herman
We are not doomed by catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, but rather by the catastrophic, economy-killing actions of the western governments that come in reaction to the nonexistent, imaginary threat.
@RoHa
Yr: “Mike, sit down and take…etc”
Okay, it’s pretty clear that between you two, RoHa and “Hugs”, I’m dealin’ with some form of a tag team, as I suspected: One real and one a sock-puppet? Two electronic-fiction bots, with no independent identitiy, serving as sock-puppets to one another? A wanker and a doppel-wanker? Two “Paracas Skull” pea-people in an alien-DNA, mutant pod? So many possibilities.
And since you seem to have the bigger mouth, RoHa, I take it that you’re the alpha-weenie and Hugs is your beta-weenie, “me-too” side-kick? Unless, of course, you’re just the “mouth-piece” for the RoHa & Hugs, dynamic-duo act, and it’s really the other way around.
O. K., RoHa, so you’re actually encouragin’ me to have a “cup of tea”? Wild surmise: Are you Russell Seitz, by any chance? So I’m guessin’ here, RoHa, that you’re either a Brit–in which case you have an excuse, of sorts, I suppose–or you’re some sort of self-loathing, Anglophile American, driven by your status-anxiety pathologies to try and score points with the real-deal, Public-School, sneer-magnet “swells”, you’re so desperately tryin’ to impress, by using smarmy, kiss-butt language that subliminally lets-on that you’re no defender of the “Boston Tea Party”, even as those from whom you seek approval contemptuously regard your needy best efforts as the pesterings of an over-eager, tag-along, twit-wannabe, Yankee-Doodle phony.
And may we finally imagine, RoHa, that your interest in proper breathing derives from a life-long passion for Yoga and that you’re a Yogi-master of the “Suppository-Head” pose? And don’t try to deny it, RoHa, because I have this photo of you, “in action”, taken from your Facebook page: “&”.
RoHa: I’m in my late sixties, I’ve lived in the UK for all of my life and the climate hasn’t changed. Maybe you should ask some older people for their recollections, and also look at some proper weather records!
mike,
To me, nobody special, and a relative newbe on these threads, the original comment by RoHa did seem like sarcasm, I think because of the context, including the comment above it . . I can understand how it might be seen as serious, given what I have seen coming out of folks who might make that comment seriously, but on this site . . that’s a very rare bird. Just appearing to be such a critter caused me to think sarcasm.
There is a pro-CAGW contingent, but it’s not made up of “true believers” as far as I can tell. It’s pysops stuff, cointelpro type insertions into the dialog. The arguments are typically convoluted attempts to blunt the slicing and dicing the folks here routinely do on any and all aspects of he CAWG Siants charade. I enjoyed your rant, with a bit of queasiness due to what I “knew” was prolly coming next, but around here you can just calmly state your case . . none of what you wrote is unusual here in terms of thoughts/ideas.
If such a bird as you thought you saw does appear, it’s not going to have anymore impact that CO2 does on a hurricane . . so don’t scare it off, let it watch for awhile, who knows? it may learn a thing or two.
You’re not thinking in your normal manner, Mike.
RoHa’s statement is obviously sarcastic. As in so many other posts here and elsewhere, RoHa and others are mocking the alarmists usual over-the-top run-for-your-lives doom screams.
The whinging paragraph’s sum up as “RoHa should’ve used ‘/sarc’, because ‘Mike’ didn’t understand it was sarcasm.
Take a nap, cool off and come back swinging on Google stats.
@ur momisugly JohnKnight
Yr last:
A thought-provoking comment, JK. Will keep the good points you make in mind as a part of my future “to rant or not to rant” decision-making. Thank you.
@ur momisugly 1saveenergy
Yr: “note for readers in USA, that was an example of a sarcastic comment.”
I enjoyed your little “needle”, way down below, there.
RoHa:
Couldn’t you have short circuited the whole line of honest responses aimed at you by the /sarc and/or immediately pointing out that you were sarcastic and mocking the alarmers?
@ATheoK
I can see that you’re tryin’ to pick up the pieces, in the aftermath of an apparent “friendly fire” incident and I thank you kindly for shouldering that “thankless” task, ATheoK
Nevertheless, I do want to make the point that I don’t “whinge”. And, with the single, national-embarrassment exception of David Appell, Americans, generally, don’t “whinge”. Rather, “whinging” is a primitive, behavioral abnormality, unique to the world’s “tea-drinker” nations (not to include the Far East), except as previously noted.
Most people tend to live in the moment and as such, and with the Paris COP-A-FEEL still 3 months away, interest will very likely increase come December.
That’s right! It’s worse than we thought! We’re all gonna die!
Living today, in “Doom” feels pretty much like it did before we were doomed.
Hi Alan. You and RoHa are right! We are all doomed! We are all gonna’ die! And, I’m not just talking about my sister, my older sister.
You see, yesterday afternoon I was sitting at the local neighborhood bar (like that’s anything new). And, inward sultrified (that’s a sultry walk) this African woman. How did I know? Well, aside from her skin tone it was her manner of dress; a truly stunning combination of Western fashion and native garb highlighted by unique jewelry. Of course she was tall and slim. And, of course, that Western fashion had to include a rather deep neckline into which the necklace hung. (Try not to make it obvious you’re looking Tom – just try.)
“That’s a really nice necklace you have there.” (Well, what other excuse could I use?)
I found out she was from Zambia. (I guess I was right – she was from Africa. I mean, Zambia’s in Africa, isn’t it?) I mentioned to her that she must be a world traveler. She told me that I (this white suburban former boy) looked like one too. Since the extent of my world travels was limited to Appleton, Wisconsin; Gary, Indiana; and Danville, Illinois; I figured I better come clean and tell her I wasn’t. She talked about Victoria Falls and was impressed that I knew about it. She said, “Well, that just shows you’re a world traveler in your mind.”
I’m dead I thought. I must be dead. I must’ve lived a good enough life because I must be in heaven. I must be dead and in heaven. But, I wasn’t; I was in hell. You see, just then, of course, of course, of course … the fiancé shows up.
They have to leave for the airport. She introduces me and tells him she’ll have another drink and be right out. (In other words; ‘Get lost while I talk to this total stranger, Tom.) He leaves as if he’s been through this exercise a million times. And, he has. She says to me, “I like to mess with him.”
Then she gives me her phone number. Forever more I will be tortured. Probably by him if I call. And, probably by my own mind; thinking about what joy, what fulfillment, what ecstasy; I might be missing in the waning days of my life if I don’t.
We are all doomed. It’s true. Nobody can dispute it. In the end, everything else in life, or a bar, is just a dream. The only thing worth concentrating on is the alcohol content of the cold Guinness in front of you.
RoHa –
If straight out of ‘Dad’s Army’ – I understand – and applaud.
Perhaps try to understand those with marginally different cultural references.
If they do not appreciate Private Walker, Pike, or Captain Mainwaring, or might not, add /sarc.
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Mike
“nobody hoi-polloi, came accross to us–“us” being, again, “us peons”, whom t the hive holds in such contempt, ”
Hoi polloi are the “working class” rather than the elite. Just thought I’d mention it…
[On the other hand, “hoity-toity” is a demeaning term for the “mucky-mucks” who hold themselves above the rest… .mod]
@Margaret Smith,
Thank you for your kind note, however, I was aware of the meaning of “hoi-polloi” you cited (except that I use the term in the more expanded sense of the “masses”). Although apparently unclear, my earlier comment sought to brandish, as a badge of honor, the dismissive terms applied to us “little guys” by our hive-“betters” (with a little hyperbole, maybe). In that regard, I employed the phrases, “us coolie-trash, nobody hoi-polloi” and “us peons”. So I think a careful reading of my comment will reveal that I used the term “hoi-polloi” correctly–but maybe not.
Undoubtedly, my rant’s typical, noodling-around character contributed to the confusion I appear to have caused you, Margaret, and appreciate your good-sport efforts to wade through my previous comment, attempting to make heads or tails of the whole convoluted, perhaps even bewildering deal.
Sorry, Mike, misunderstood you. And I read all comments…fully understanding them is another matter, though.
The only ones who are googling for UN Climate Change conference in Paris are AGW skeptics, and even few of those even care.
This could have been forecast just by looking at the UN’s recent poll of global concerns among people. GLOBAL WARMING came last or second to last in a long list. It’s called doom fatigue. They were promised 100 days to save the planet, the……………………..THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT. 🙁
http://nightstick1.azurewebsites.net/NightStick/image.axd?picture=2011%2F2%2FEnd-of-the-World.jpg
I read that the founders of the Mormon, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventist churches all made multiple false predictions about the end of the world, so maybe all of this sound and fury is the start of a Universal Climate Church!
If so, I’m certain that their Vicar of Climate will canonize Al Gore (but lighting candles for him will be forbidden).
Have people better things to worry about that
global warming‘climate change’?Below image taken this past July from http://data.myworld2015.org/ by wuwt. Climate change is still dead last. On the other hand Pew said ‘Climate Change Seen as Top Global Threat’. Sooo it’s the top ‘threat’ of least concern. LOL.
Paris is officially going to be a marvellous success, dontcha know?
Absolutely wonderful. I am so jealous of the talent that put that together.
Been saying this for some time. There’s lots more interest in the Zombie Apocalypse.
I guess that’s because there is more rationality in worrying about a zombie apocalypse than in “warming” temperatures that happen to be unusually stable right now.
Yea, but what if there are zombies AND warming.
Buy ammo, buy insulation!
And more science!
Cop 21 , Zombie Apocalypse , is there much difference?
Both are walking dead that want to consume the living.
+1
Oh, no! The sky is falling again?
Mumbles around the graveyard say the Zombies are gonna be in Paris soon.
Maybe everyone has stopped using google?
If only!
Could happen, though. Alternatives aren’t much better.
In what universe?
I heard someone on NPR yesterday saying Paris was our “Last Chance” to get a Climate deal done. How many times have we heard that one, eh?
It’s their own fault for billing Paris as “the BIG one” where a deal would get done. Now many are backpedaling like crazy trying to lower expectations.
So if they don’t get their big deal, do we think they’ll throw in the towel as having missed their “Last Chance”?
No way! The next Shindig will be (yet again) their “Last Chance”…. The leftist agenda and the corrupt “science” industry will never let Agenda 21 and it’s cash flow go.
We should be so lucky.
I’m with RoHa. We are doomed to even more of these ‘last chance to save the world’ conferences. Which we’ll pay for with our tax dollars. And wasted paper promoting and then reporting garbage. More pollutants from politicians flying to Paris in government/private/chartered jets. (Well, that last isn’t so much a threat as just the waste of perfectly good fuel I could have used in my ATV here in Kalifornia!)
I hope someone brings some tissues for “Weepy Bill”. 😉
From my experience on news sites (Telegraph and Yahoo), years ago the warmists were engaging about 50%; this last full year, they are about 10%. It appears to me the general public has turned against the climate criminals – the cause seems to be related to those that pay attention to the ridiculous claims in the news AND they also know our Liar-in-Chief supports Global Warming.
Since I’m a criminal, call the police. (780) 423-4567.
Jim – Edmonton Police Service. Really???
Wayne in Faraway (200 km SW).
Jim
I presume you’ve stocked up for the winter?
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2015/06/red-rose.html#comments
Specifically how is the public turning against your so called “climate criminals”?
There is “wisdom in crowds.”
Chris, for the last few years I’ve regularly checked to see what newspapers have been saying and as a result I’ve engaged in hundreds possibly thousands of online conversations. But I tended not to comment when there was already a healthy group of sceptics on a story.
However, over this last year I’ve not only steadily found less and less to comment on as the serious press have cut back on global warming coverage, but where there was something to comment, the stories were usually already inundated with sceptics … and climate extremists are now a rarity.
Chis,
“Specifically how is the public turning against your so called “climate criminals”?”
By consensus, there’s wisdom in communities.
(Just thought I’d steal a bit of their fizzle)
Chris
Specifically how is the public turning against your so called “climate criminals”?
See Graph at top of page, by ignoring them. Must really sting, huh.
michael
The developing countries may well call developed countries to task for their empty wannabe in the future socialist, sustainability threats:
“there is strong reason to believe the grievance (by developing countries) over funding for protection from climate impacts presents the most profound threat to a successful climate agreement”
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/09/pope-francis-and-the-climate-collision-ahead-000249
Crying WOLF! has reached and then exceeded the point of diminishing returns. No one really cares any more about their cries of impending DOOM!..pg
Wikipedia has a long (and incomplete) list of predictions for the End of the World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
Most, but not all, of these predictions are religious or numerological. Others, like the heat death of the Universe, have more physical backing; but nobody is going to proclaim Paris as our Last Chance to deal with Universal Cooling.
Crying wolf indeed
I never knew Stephen Hawking could sing!
😀
Nobody is searching for it, because it is bookmarked (in some cases anyway)??? We all have our regular sites, for what interests us.
Global Warming/Climate Disruption/Climate Change/Warmageddon has become a joke among the general public. All the polls and Internet activity prove this.
People realize the world’s climate is slowly changing as it always has over the past 4.5 billion years and the wild CAGE claims are completely bogus. The only real effects of the CAGW hoax has been skyrocketing electricity rates, higher unemployment, slower economic growth and more government rules, regulation and power….. Oh, goody…
It’s amazing that Leftists don’t seem to appreciate the inevitable blowback against Statism once the CAGW hoax is finally disconfirmed within 5~7 years.
@ur momisugly SAMURAI
I certainly hope you are right, but I fear that what the public knows, understands, wants has precious little to do with what the state does. The evil leaders of the criminal gang writ large called the USA don’t give a rat’s rear about what the populous thinks. The common man is just a slave to be manipulated.
The state has been in the economy killing business for generations. This is just more of the same.
Except we are in an Ice Age cycle and our Interglacial is more likely to end than not end. The earth’s climate is not ‘stable’ at all.
They should have held it in “…Paris in the Summer when it sizzles.”
… or not at all.
Must be tough to discover that when
you bore/lie to most of the people,
most of the time, they start ignoring you.
The only people interested are skeptics and deniers LOL
That’s what I was thinking too!
Oh wow! Save the climate! Here’s some money now [trimmed] off!
[watch the cursing. .mod]
I guess that no one told Obama and the Pope! Of course they are both above the realities of the little people.
Perhaps this diagram will explain why those at the top take so long to get the message:
http://scottishsceptic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/dinosaur-between-legs.png
I’ve seen a better infographic! You get an A for this semester and can take a vacation until January.
“More people have been lifted out of poverty because of capitalism than ever–is that how we’re doomed?”
what do you mean ?
Where’s paris?
It’s right after plastered.
Texas?
Being conned into starting the Trojan wars?
Paris is going to be a dartboard.
I’m going to post facts everywhere, copy them and paste as often as I can on sites that delete comments with facts in them. I know I’m not alone.
Saturate the f*ckwit mods of those sites – reach an equilibrium. People often ask how to f*ck up these vile climate liar cretins. This is going to be it.
Nicolas Hulot would be your best friend ::
Perhaps the Gore effect will be especially powerful and dump snow on Paris during the entire conference.
It would be almost too wonderful to be true if Paris were to experience bitterly cold weather during COP 21. I can just see all those tropical country delegates trying to control their chattering teeth as they claimed the globe is warming too much.
Interest peaked in 2009/2010, about the same time as the leaked CRU emails. Whether the CRU was exonerated or not, by a slightly biased auditor, people were smart enough to label the whole thing as a hoax. We are not as dumb as they think we are.
This time they might tip right over. The burden of failed predictions must be making even these dinosaurs dizzy.
It must be the suns solar cycle activity, because it’s dropping quicker than a paid off “man made” global warming bs artist… Or orbital… Just saying! 😉
Keep saying it Sparks!
Solar flux and TSI have dropped off a great deal since Feb this year.
It is still more than likely they will have to put out last second scare campaigns-make mountains out of molehills and cry out this is our last chance. Mind you, the binding bids of suicide from Sovereign nations have already been taken. The UN is not about to cease in its quest to deceive the nations of the planet to sign away their sovereignty and freedom. Meanwhile, we all have to strive to expose the gigantic FRAUD that is the UN. It was a fraud from day one.