Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the United Nations, “the people’s voice is clear”. The UN believes the results of a survey distributed to gamers playing Angry Birds, Subway Surfers, Sudoku and Words With Friends is a strong mandate for climate action.
UN global climate poll: ‘The people’s voice is clear – they want action’
The biggest ever opinion poll on climate change has found two-thirds of people think it is a “global emergency”.
The survey shows people across the world support climate action and gives politicians a clear mandate to take the major action needed, according to the UN organisation that carried out the poll.
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) questioned 1.2 million people in 50 countries, many of them young.
While younger people showed the greatest concern, with 69% of those aged 14-18 saying there is a climate emergency, 58% of those over 60 agreed, suggesting there is not a huge generational divide.
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“The voice of the people is clear – they want action on climate change,” said Cassie Flynn, the UNDP’s strategic adviser on climate change.
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The poll was distributed via advertisements in video games and puzzles, including Angry Birds, Subway Surfers, Sudoku and Words With Friends, and this particularly helped reach younger people.
The idea came to Flynn when she was on the subway in New York City: “I looked around and everyone was on their phones and most were playing games.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/27/un-global-climate-poll-peoples-voice-is-clear-they-want-action
I feel sorry that the United Nations appears to be having such difficulty getting people to engage with their climate emergency that they have to resort to such innovative methods.
Perhaps WUWT readers can help out with suggestions of what else the UN could do, to get people to answer their surveys.
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Instead of the bird game, go to White House Youtube channel and give it a thumb down – the numbers are hilarious.
Quote:
“”Each of those analyses is enough to make AI-watchers sit up and take notice, but when combined it creates a picture of a grim future rife with ethical concerns, potential misuse of AI, and loss of privacy in the workplace”
Especially note this bit: “potential misuse of AI”
Makes you wonder doesn’t it, is it beyond the bounds that this ‘survey’ was ‘nobbled’, fixed, adjusted, counted by Dominion, programmed by Tesla?
Or should we just stick with the idea and actuality of Artificial Un-intelligence – brought on by an addiction to one’s own Dopamine, as required to (try to) alleviate the stress/depression brought on by the very people who ran this survey.
Good Dopamine release agents being, of course, computer games but also, booze, sugar and cannabis.
In which cases it become Real UnIntelligence
Or should that be UN unintelligence – which we’re all aware of anyway.
ho hum
Nice positive feedback there tho, especially when the Turkeys Voting For Christmas are angry (turkey) birds.
haha
Quote at the top from here
Say again: “Switch it all off”, before it starts doing some Real Serious Damage
The biggest ever opinion poll on climate change has found two-thirds of people think it is a “global emergency”.
Nope. The biggest ever opinion poll (over 9 million) on climate change in over 100 countries has found that no one cares:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200801201920/http://data.myworld2015.org/
etc.
Of 15 issues, “action on climate change” ranks dead last by a wide margin. But the U.N. isn’t happy with what real people think because it doesn’t align with the thinking of Western elitists who have appointed themselves the saviors of the planet, if we just
follow their counselobey their diktats. So they manufacture new “polls” to convince us that they’re right and we’re not. Have a look at current U.N. priorities:How much more out of touch with reality can you get? Only number 4 corresponds in any way to what most people want.
“4. Reducing conflict, humanitarian aid”
Now, well, as a child, I learned that the comma replaces the repeated use of “and”, so, you stinkerp, feel we should reduce conflict AND humanitarian aid?
Being in Africa, I cannot tell you how much we want Them to stop corrupting, indebting AND genociding us with Their frigging “humanitarian aid” that is actually interest-bearing loans coupled with odious “good governance” contracts which are actually just “austerity measures” further dehumanising the poor and militarising the police.
At last, some friggin’ honesty, let’s reduce that “humanitarian aid” today still!
“so, you stinkerp, feel we should reduce conflict AND humanitarian aid?”
Try reading for comprehension. I did not say that, suggest it, or even imply it. Those are the declared priorities of the U.N. for 2021, as I said in my comment.
I have a humour gland for sale, out the skull of a libtard fact-checker from TwitFaceGram. May I suggest you talk to your financial advisor about starting a savings fund, I’m afraid it’s quite expensive, it was hardly ever used, virtually brand new! I’ll do a generous discount for cash…
Tell you what, you can have it for free, if you smile just a little bit.
Nothing compared to these angry turds:
https://phzoe.com/2021/01/27/white-house-youtube-dislike-manipulation/
I shall post my kudos to you here, Ms. Phin. Excellent work.
This also helps me to refine my suspect list for just which creatures of the night are responsible for the wildly implausible changes in data that all seem to cluster around 01:00 hours.
The previous hypothesis was that it is vampires (or observational astronomers) trying to take over the world. Now it seems to be more likely that it is the work of role playing geeks, perhaps all unknowingly. Someone should search the dark web for a game called “Cook the Numbers” or suchlike. The makers might have made the mistake of signing their code…
Great work as usual, Zoe. Tony Heller showed how Twitter was shadow banning almost all of his likes and new followers. His UT numbers have been completely corrupted … holding his numbers under 100K.
I heard this report on BBC world service last night. The ”science reporter” actually talked about it as if it was important. I nodded off……
Angry Birds vs Climate models
All just computer GAMES.
So first you screen out high intelligence, high motivation, high performance subjects by target surveying slack jawed eye glazed gamers, then extrapolate the results to national, if not global levels and intone, “The people have spoken”. If that doesn’t speak to the slack jawed eye glazed unintelligence of the survey, I don’t know what does.
I wonder if they’d feel the same way if the “mandate for climate action” involved taking their personal screens away outright? Globally, such things have quite a footprint, y’know!
Or perhaps a mandate on implementing technology blocks such that screens and devices could only be re-charged by wind, hydro, geothermal, nuclear, or solar?
Imagine a convoluted BBC-style television license, complete with random inspections, but on a global scale, and affecting laptops, tablets, phones, etc. Surely the punters would love to vote for this in a survey!
Power-Warden: “Sorry, brother, you can’t re-charge that device except from an approved “green” power point, and not until 0430 tomorrow morning. Bad luck! Try using it less!”
Perhaps all those people in all those countries who spend their time playing video games should reflect on their contribution to CO2 emissions and runaway global warming, stop wasting their time and learn about how they are being manipulated?
Or learn to code.
Wouldn’t that just produce more of that evil CO2?
Maybe if the question, if answered yes, would reduce your footprint by switching off the device for an hour there would have been a more sincere response.
I’m more surprised the results were so low since the algorithms delivering the ads on social media deliberately target people who would already believe in CAGW.
It’s why only a few people who are sceptical would have received the ad.
The survey is trash, manipulation of the highest order.
Angry Birds, Subway Surfers, Sudoku and Words With Friends, and this particularly helped reach younger people.
Wow… Angry Birds? When did that come out? 2012? Subway Surfers I had to look up but seems to date from the same year.
Sudoku? The number puzzle that can be found anywhere and all the cool high school kids are famous for?
Words With Friends? Yup. Can’t walk into an EB Games store without tripping over the merch for that franchise.
These are MOBILE games!
There is a slur with PC gamers; “Mobile Port”. It means the game in question is a basic game with limited game play or depth that has been converted to PC in order to suck dollars out of unsuspecting victims.
This is rubbish, but then again, this is from the UN.
I would like to see the same survey done with the FPS gaming community.
Question One: Is Global Warming a threat to the planet?
2% Yeah I guess
6% No
59% Git Gud Noob
21% Git Gud Noob + teabagging
11% F to pay respects
1% Kick Jay
or the Skyrim modding community
3% Yes
4% No
93% Sorry? I just reinstalled the mod to make all dragons appear as Thomas the Tank Engine. What were you saying?
Yeah, sod this survey.
Setting climate policy is simple when you let Google do it.
Were the investors supporting GameStop included in this survey?
Typically, gamers are hopeless simpletons – enormous wasters of their time and their life’s future.
Why would anyone want to know the opinions of simpletons?
Stated in the above article’s quoted portion: “While younger people showed the greatest concern, with 69% of those aged 14-18 saying there is a climate emergency, 58% of those over 60 agreed, suggesting there is not a huge generational divide.”
Also stated in the above article: “The poll was distributed via advertisements in video games and puzzles, including Angry Birds, Subway Surfers, Sudoku and Words With Friends, and this particularly helped reach younger people.”
So, in total, how many people over age 60 replied to this poll?
There are proper ways to conduct polls to produce meaningful results . . . this was NOT one of them.
All the United Nations does is play games, so it seemed perfectly natural to them to assume that game players were a good representative group for the entire population.
Aren’t percentages meaningless without the whole number of what the percentage is of?
Yes, but then again that would be known as “following the science” of statistical sampling.
Why ever should we do that today?
The people’s vote?
Apparently restricting a vote to only those who can be bother to make it to a polling booth or apply for an absentee vote is not reflective of the public’s will, but this survey, of mostly under 18yo, is a vote.