Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova, GWPF; The USA are amongst the most skeptical of the countries surveyed (fourth from the bottom of believers).
International poll: most expect to feel impact of climate change, many think it will make us extinct
In:InternationalScience & environment
September 15, 2019, 2:00 p.m.New YouGov study of 30,000 people in 28 countries and regions uncovers noticeable differences in attitudes between East and West
Climate change may never before have been as firmly fixed in the public consciousness as it is today. With campaigner Greta Thunberg set to speak at the UN’s Climate Action Summit, a new international YouGov survey uncovers attitudes to climate change across the world.Acknowledgement of mankind’s role in the changing climate is widespread
That climate change is happening and that humanity is at least partly responsible is a view held by the majority across the world. Indians are the most likely to think that human activity is the main reason the climate is changing, at 71%.
At 35% Norwegians and Saudi Arabians are the least likely to think this, although a further 36% and 48% respectively in each country think that humanity is partially responsible for the changing climate.
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Read more: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate
Its not all good news for US climate skeptics.
There is another chart (see the yougov link above) which suggests slightly over half of US people surveyed think climate change will have at least “a fair amount of impact” on the economy, so there is concern.
The survey also suggests that around 50% of people surveyed in the USA believe drastic changes are required to avert climate change, with an additional 15% supporting continuation of existing climate policies. I’m not sure how that view reconciles with the 36% who believe that humans are mostly responsible for climate change.
JoNova raises concerns about the poll methodology.
Scandinavian countries are highly skeptical of anthropogenic climate change, I found this surprising; for some reason I thought they were all activists. Greta Thunberg’s Sweden is third from the bottom of the list of climate believers.
For some reason Canada doesn’t appear on the summary page. I had a look at the full report, Canada gets a few mentions but I didn’t find an explanation of why Canada’s opinions don’t appear in the summary.
Yep. Further proof that a third of the population is well below average IQ….
LMAO Even in cucked Europe, people know it’s bs.
I wonder if they ever thought about asking the sample participants, what do they think was the cause of climate change before humans existed as sentient animals roughly one hundred thousand years ago? ( I am being generous re the sentient time scale)
I wonder what could possibly have prompted the climate to change during the 4.5 billion years of planet Earth’s existence, prior to human evolution as humans?
You can’t trust polls favoring any action until the $$ costs start being felt…or the foreknowledge of the certainty of very high costs (and no calculable benefit) is in play.
‘Climate change’ ranks at the bottom of Americans’ concerns, yet WaPo now claims 8 in 10 Americans Believe. Bulls*it. Even 36% seems high, all things considered. Seems the leftist/fascist media is following Rules for Radicals #1: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.” When you own all the megaphones you can create a new reality, so my biggest concern is election fraud, the only way democrats can ‘win’ with their laughable platform and no doubt they know it. Between ‘fraction magic’ that turns votes into fractions and illegal voters it looks bad. And the entire media is paving the way and obviously complicit.
Please check out ZipPollsUSA.com? It’s the best kept secret because it inadvertently exposes the sham. Zip anonymously polls over 100,000 Americans across the political spectrum and a high majority support Trump. Zip is owned by a liberal and all their questions are spun that way, so the results are clearly not rigged. They won’t ask the Big Question: “Who will you vote for in 2020?” and blow the illusion completely, but the questions they do ask make it obvious, despite the liberal spin. Zip predicted the Trump landslide and it’s now being ignored by the ENTIRE media, all pushing the left/right narrative and ignoring the vast MAGA middle, which of course makes demonizing Trump supporters easy and is in line with the illusion that most Americans Believe in man-made climate change. All smoke & mirrors!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/08/13/app-maker—trump-win-election/88640044/
USA Today: App Maker: Trump will win election
August 13, 2016
Excerpts: “”Based on the stats we see, he looks strong,” says Ric Militi, co-founder of San Diego-based Crazy Raccoons, maker of the Zip question and answer app. His app poses questions and polls responses based on an average of 100,000 daily users. “We’re not a poll. We’re a conversation, and 100% anonymous,” Militi says. “People feel comfortable answering questions without fear of being bullied or being called a racist. People can express themselves safely, and you get a pure answer.”. . .He contends that most media polls are just flat-out wrong and that smartphone answers are the future. . .So either the traditional polls are right or Militi is onto something, with a different way of polling that lets citizens answer more openly. We’ll find out on Nov. 8, when voters go to the real polls.”
https://zippollusa.com/category/politics/
YouGov polls are basically worthless. The high numbers in India do not surprise me, it’s possible that 95% of the respondents there work in information technology and rarely get out into the real world.
Canadian citizens are being RAPED by carbon taxes. Yeah, I doubt any global warmist wants Canadian opinions about global warming.
I suspect that none of the 36% could define “climate” or “climate change” in scientific terms, so essentially the 36% are 100% duped.
Andrew
“Doomsdays that didn’t happen: Think tank compiles decades’ worth of dire climate predictions”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/failed-climate-change-predictions
“The conservative-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute has put together a lengthy compilation of apocalyptic predictions dating back decades that did not come to pass, timed as Democratic presidential candidates and climate activists refocus attention on the issue.”
Climate change is having an impact on the economy. Crop production is up.
Mark, I think you will find that crop increase is due to increased CO2. Climate change is independent of CO2, so we must be grateful that the ending of the little ice age and the thawing of the planet since 1850, is now complimented in the past 75 years by a good increase of CO2. More would be helpful. I would love to see the desert areas continue to shrink as they are currently doing. 600 PPM would be a good figure to aim for. Then we can decide if the cost of all the additional crop yields continuous record harvests and so on, is too much to bear?….
The world has warmed since 1850, though in all likelihood CO2 has counted for less than 5% of that warming.
This warming has resulted in lots of land that used to be too cold to grow crops on now being farmed.
Earth has warmed since c. AD 1695, during the Maunder Minimum depths of the LIA.
But lamentably, the long-term trend remains down. The Holocene Optimum (~5 Ka) was toastier than the Egyptian (4 Ka) and Minoan (3 Ka) Warm Periods, which were balmier than the Roman WP (2 Ka), which was warmer than the Medieval WP (1 Ka), which was warmer than the Modern WP so far.
Canada is missing, but I think asking why is the wrong question. My question: Why is the USA included since the entire rest of North and South America is not? At least not on the top line graph.
30,000 in the survey, great. Then there is the petition of 31,487 scientists on http://www.petitionproject.org/
I assume most of those scientists are better informed than those in the YouGov thingy.
This survey reminds me about when Lord Monckton was at COP15 in Copenhagen 2009 and asked people in the street about global warming, which it was called back then. Monckton approached a young woman, who told him how bad it was and that we would soon cook, the polar bears going extinct, and bla.. bla.. Monckton asked her where she had this information from about the temperature, polar bears, etc. With a clear and authoritative voice, she said: “From Greenpeace”.
Monckton politely asked her to check the facts at more reliable sources.
This was an online survey. Who else would go to a UN related climate site other than UN nut-bar enviro groupies… and this would be low stats for them, and there are only 1000+ in each country. Obviously the problem is a lot less than we thought 🙂
Looks like around 50% of the population are totally manipulable by propaganda….
Fairly sobering thought.
Yet another laughably biased analysis of a survey. And yet you people want to convince us of your ability to interpret more scientific information. Shameful.
“…why Canada’s opinions don’t count…”
It’s Canada A
It’s Turdeau Country A
They belong under a Mile of Ice to protect the Arctic.
Maple Trees will grow farther south
I firmly believe that Climate Change can be averted by sending massive amounts of money to my Swiss bank account that I will supply at a later date.
Basic question: What percentage in each country even knows what UHI is?
How many are willing to pay for it?
It looks like Germany is willing to go down the tubes but I’m not so sure about others called to fork it over.
BTW, this headline and image says a lot. see Reuters story
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-carbon-companies/german-carbon-pricing-plan-may-cost-dax-companies-billions-report-idUSKBN1W31M3?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29
ResourceGuy… How sad germany and europe has become, the tax is a damaging scam… taxing us and building wind farms or solar panels is a massive waste of money
Another meanwhile story today…..
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/5a38cf59-2d18-3a15-8efa-c4434da98ce2/coal-imports-by-indian-power.html
Beware of variation in statistics, you’ll find claims of much higher levels of belief.
One department of a US ivy-league university is clearly biased toward AGW, its statistics cannot be trusted.
One established polling outfit is clearly biased
I believe your title is incorrect. Looking at the graphic it shows 38% for USA, not 36%.
It’s worse than we thought!!!
As a Dane living in Sweden, I am more than surprised. I am often confronted by Danes with standpoint on AGW, most likely due to my involvement in power generation and wind turbines in the mid 1980’s. Most get very angry with me, when they hear my standpoint, and most higher educated friends are so much for wind and solar, and so much against “dirty oil and coal” and nuclear. In some way I understand them, as Denmark has a considerable income from the wind turbine industry. But their attitude was also partly the reason why I left Denmark for Scotland, US and The Netherlands. When I moved to Scotland in 1989, heating oil was free of tax and VAT. The Oil exploration off of Aberdeen was kind of booming, the area between Glasgow and Edinburgh was nicknamed Silicon Glen. It looked like Scotland was rising above just being home for sheep and haggish for dinner.
During the ten years I stayed there, people were more and more often asking about AGW. Heating oil got VAT attached, the US companies began to pull out of Silicon Glenn and significant increase in receivership.
Then I left Scotland for The Netherlands, to work for an American company and enjoyed a new boom, until Al Gore et al spoiled it all.
Pols, like in this article, has probably played a role in forming peoples (sheeples) opinion, as you want to be trendy, follow the majority and not burn the bridges behind you.
You are very welcome to talk about the weather, it is socially perfect; but be very careful with the long term weather, also called climate, if you dislike wind, solar and agenda21, and like good old coal and oil. – Oh, and please do not say that Saint Greta is right, Obama has just had a talk with her, where Obama says Greta is the greatest savior of the planet of our time. – I always thought that James Bond did a fairly good job saving the world.
…in Denmark one of the 2 major TV networks just had a Saturday evening AGW special called – “Denmark plants trees” – it had as many viewers as the other channels Wednesday program “grandma’s hunt for men”
Around 350.000 viewers – ‘Dancing with the stars’ on Friday usually hits 1 million viewers.
All employees on all media platform in Denmark never the less talks as if climate change is the major topic on all Danes mind. This poll however will as a consequence never the mentioned by any newspaper I’m quite sure.
“Denmark plants trees”
Wow, that sounds like scintillating TV. /sarc
“grandma’s hunt for men”
Now THAT is more to my liking. Does she use a rifle or shotgun?