Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Ipsos MORI, Climate Change concern has reached fever pitch in the UK, as the relentless BBC and establishment campaign to frighten ordinary people with stories of bushfires and heatwaves yields dividends.
Public concern about climate change and pollution doubles to a near-record level
Ipsos MORI’s Issues Index for August 2021 shows public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points over last month’s Index.
27 August 2021
- A third of the British public see the environment and climate change as a big issue for the country, making it the second-biggest issue
- COVID-19 remains the biggest concern but the level of worry drops further
- Public concern about the economy, NHS and education also dips from levels recorded in July
The August 2021 Ipsos MORI issues Index reveals spontaneous public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points since July. Thirty-two per cent mention climate change and pollution as a major issue for Britain, making it the second-biggest concern for the country. Fieldwork was conducted between 6 and 13 August, covering the launch of the Sixth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change.
This is the second highest-level of concern recorded about the environment since it was added as an option to the survey in 1988: in July 1989, when the highest temperature since 1976 was recorded at Heathrow, 35% mentioned environmental issues as a worry.
COVID-19 remains the biggest issue for Britain, however just 40% mention it as a big issue this month – down eight points from July and 35 percentage points below the highest score this year (75% in January).
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I worry for my friends in Britain.
With a net contribution of 1.1% of global CO2 emissions, nothing Britain does to the British people can make a noticeable difference to global CO2.
On the international stage, the Biden administration is struggling with ongoing resistance to their planned trillion dollar climate expenditures. Other nations like Australia are openly defying the globalist push to shut down coal, and China is continuing business as usual, paying lip service but pretty much expanding coal capacity as fast as they can build the new plants.
COP26 will be a monumental failure, you can already smell the panic.
So what will British PM Boris Johnson do in the wake of a COP26 failure, to salvage his credibility with British voters as a climate saviour?
Surging British public support for climate action and an unexpected slight improvement in public finances could embolden BoJo to attempt the impossible – harsh climate taxes, hydrogen economy, offshore wind, banning gasoline, the full monty of loser strategies for reducing CO2 emissions.
The extraordinary cost this will impose on ordinary Britons already facing soaring fuel poverty could make the lives of poor people in Britain utterly unbearable.
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If you want to know the truth, put “ipsos mori” into Google translate and click Latin language. That is informative.
Pity the poor Climate Taliban, and the constant uphill struggle they face. They need to not only lie, but keep ramping up the size of the lies, as in their “Red Alert” now. How can they possibly top that? I don’t know, but they’ll think of something, heroes that they are. But they also have to create the illusion that they are winning, because people tend to be herd animals, and don’t want to go against the herd. So, they have to lie about that too, pretending to do “surveys” or “polls” which “show” that they are winning. It really is a daunting task they face, with the constant fear that will all come tumbling down, and they along with it. And now they face the spectacle of COP26, which is doomed to fail, but they will have to lie about that also, and claim it was a “success.
So pity the poor Climate Taliban in their epic struggle against truth and science itself. It sucks to be them.
“the size of the lies, as in their “Red Alert” now. How can they possibly top that ?”
A pink transgender alert ?
Climate Taliban
I like that.
Religious zealots seeking to rule by force and take everyone back to the Middle Ages
And then there’s the Taliban who moderate in comparison 🤣🤣🤣
Climate concern is at a record high? Does that mean that one in 10 people is now willing to spend $10/yr instead of $5?
A third of the British public!!! Wow, that’s a landslide!
Hey, it’s still summer. 🙂
People in the UK are worried about the heat? In July, average min 16C, average max 23C, and in Jan 2-8C. With 1150 mm of rain per year.
It’s spin to counter the recent tidal wave of British people calling bullshit on climate posts on social media, especially if they features Prince Charles.
So despite 40 years of propaganda from the Misleadia, spear-headed by the BBC and the Guardian, only:
Or put another way two-thirds of the British public see the environment and climate change as no biggie.
There’s hope yet for us Brits
There is an increasing disconnect between these supposed “opinion polls” and reality. Almost certainly this is because those who are most sceptical of the utter rubbish we get on climate, are increasingly sceptical on a whole range of other public issues and so are moving away from the channels that opinion pollsters use.