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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When you are force fed, you don’t have to look for a meal. It doesn’t make a difference if people have stopped being interested, the news media keeps on failing to ask questions about why so much of tax payers money has been spent with nothing to show for it. When the number of searches for the pause or temperature adjustments go up, give me a call.
emsnews, Joseph, DDP, etc,
Of course you’re making valid points, the perps don’t want the public at at large to be too attentive to the details of the con, but when they pulled the ‘consensus’ rabbit out of their hat, so to speak, they set in motion forces that are not easily controlled by press releases and celebrity endorsements and such, it seems to me.
They set a great many otherwise busy minds that were being swept along by the “show”, but know the basic nature of the scientific appraoch, to wondering (my own included), And as the years without continued warming continued to pass, the con became more and more difficult to conceal effectively, since consensus . They initiated a “shelf life” sort of aspect to the whole presentation which is growing rather long in the tooth, among other things.
And now, the claims of consensus and the debate being over ring very hollow, which is to say the “cover” many knowing/wishful thinking participants in the overall charade once saw as warm and cozy, has become tattered and drafty. They know many people they must deal with to get anything done can see right through it, and will not feel so safe in “going along to get along”.
In light of this circumstance, I believe this really is their last chance to seal this deal, so to speak. That they must do so without much public support, in tough and unpredictable economic times, means the entire edifice of the mass media “bully pulpit” the hyper-wealthy criminals on high have purchased, is at risk of crumbling. Just barging ahead with a great fanfare may not be Plan A anymore. We may yet live to fight another day . . and if you don’t lose, long enough, you win.
Let’s stand our ground I say, and go down with honor, if we are really doomed.
Hilarious example of internet plagiarism:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samie-alachrafi/cop21_2_b_8205670.html
This silly fellow couldn’t bring himself to credit WUWT or Eric Worrall, let alone perform his own search. Nope, he just lifted the image from WUWT w/o attribution. Which of course is an admission that “Warmist Believers” consult “Denialist Sites” for their data. Not only brain-dead, but lazy. Own-goal.
Precious irony, in a post lamenting the lack of public interest in alarmism, even as the author is crying tears, the size of which Henny Penny would be proud.
Kurt in Switzerland
“Samie Al-Achrafi is a leading global culture change expert, recognised for creating high performance cultures underpinned by values. He is known for his progressive learning interventions that transform organisations and embed lasting change. Born and raised in the Middle East, Samie moved to the UK and USA before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where he was posted to Romania. Samie has a double first class degree from the University of Durham, a Master’s from City University London and recently attended Harvard Business School. He has worked with leading organisations around the world such as Walt Disney World, Emirates Airline and HSBC to create alignment around purpose and deliver on their organisational ambitions.”