Sorry, Al…Americans Just Aren’t Buying Into Global Warming Alarmism
You know what’s funny? I live on the Oregon Coast, and it actually snowed last night…and the night before. Didn’t stick the ground here at sea level, but it dusted the hills.
Newsbusters has an article based on a recent Gallup poll…
Want to talk about really inconvenient truths?
Well, despite Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s massive campaign to scare the world into thinking the planet is facing imminent doom at the hands of global warming, Americans don’t seem to be buying it.
In fact, a new Gallup poll released moments ago revealed, “a little more than a third say they worry about [global warming] a great deal, a percentage that is roughly the same as the one Gallup measured 19 years ago.”
Hehehehehe.
Here are the exquisitely delicious details:
Despite the enormous attention paid to global warming over the past several years, the average American is in some ways no more worried about it than in years past. Americans do appear to have become more likely to believe global warming’s effects are already taking place and that it could represent a threat to their way of life during their lifetimes. But the American public is more worried about a series of other environmental concerns than about global warming, and there has been no consistent upward trend on worry about global warming going back for two decades. Additionally, only a little more than a third of Americans say that immediate, drastic action is needed in order to maintain life as we know it on the planet. […]
Slightly less than half of Americans in 1997 said the effects of global warming had already begun to happen. That number has risen, particularly in the past two years, to the point where today 61% say the effects have already begun to happen at this point in time. About one out of four Americans, however, continue to say the effects of global warming will not happen in their lifetimes, if ever. […]
The fact that a majority of Americans don’t believe global warming will pose a threat to them in their lifetimes makes it perhaps less surprising to find that significantly less than a majority of Americans say they worry a great deal about it. In fact, worry about global warming is low on a list of 12 environmental problems that Gallup asks about in the Environment surveys. […]
There is, in fact, little more evidence of worry about global warming now than there was when this question was first asked in 1989. […]
Still, the trend data suggest that despite the growing attention to and emphasis on global warming in recent years, there has been no consistent increase in worry about it since Gallup began asking the question way back in 1989. […]
A Gallup Poll question asks Americans whether “additional, immediate, and drastic action” is necessary concerning the environment, and in this year’s update, about a third answer “yes.”
That number is down slightly from last year and, stretching back in time, is roughly the same as was measured in a 1995 poll.
And here’s the delicious conclusion that should keep the Global Warmingest-in-Chief up at night:
Although there have been fluctuations on this measure of worry over the years, the percentage of Americans who worry a great deal about global warming is no higher now than it was 19 years ago. And the percentage who do worry a great deal — 37% — is still well less than a majority, and in fact lower than the percentage who worry a great deal about such environmental issues as pollution of drinking water, pollution of lakes and reservoirs, and toxic waste in the soil.
Of course, it goes without saying that readers will likely see little about this poll in the mainstream press. But, much more important, we have to hope that every member of Congress — and President Bush — gets a copy of this survey such that all efforts to enact a carbon cap-and-trade scheme in this nation are immediately halted.
(Newsbusters)
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I guess being that I did a research paper for an upper level chemistry class in 2004 and came away thinking we have a better chance of a global ice age than global warming because of increased CO2 emissions, can I add my name to the list that never believed the horseshiite in the first place?
I don’t know whether that makes me informed, a dummy or a complete slacker but I say the polar bears are going to be okay.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:28 amI never bought into this theory. the earth goes through natural cycles constantly, some more drastic than others. growing up as a little kid in Ohio the weather has always been the same, very extreme. we have gone from the heater to the air conditioner in the same 24 hour period.
i sit at home and while watching the news i realize something when they show the almanac for the day, most of the highest recorded temperatures per each day were set back in the 1900s. is the earth heating up? i dont think so
April 21st, 2008 at 11:34 amOne of the arguments that I hear man-made global warming devotees make all the time is questioning the education level of the people who believe it to be a crock. Manbearpig couldn’t even get out of divinity school.
Heidi Cullen’s degrees are in History and Eastern Religions? Now what is their credibility? I say none.
So who am I going to pay attention to? Al or Heidi? Not lately.
I’ll listen to Dr Singer, Linzden, Chris Horner.
Dr William Gray once said: “The degree to which you believe global warming is causing major hurricanes to increase is inversely proportional to your knowledge about these storms”
He’s calling people like Heidi Cullen and manbearpigs idiots.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:50 amMan bear pig–get the f**k outta here,
April 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pmHeidi, gimme your phone # darlin, let’s go on a cruise,
we gotta talk.
Praise the Lord for global warming! If it weren’t for GW, just imagine what that dusting of snow in Oregon would have been, possibly a foot or more of snow!
I am SOOOO glad global warming is here, I can’t begin to tell you all about it. I just think of those last 18 inches we got here in Cleveland a few weeks ago. If not for GW, again, we are probably looking at several feet instead…
I cannot wait until Global Warming has the average temp here in NE Ohio to around 80 Degrees… Bring on the bloody GW, faster!!! My gas bill was a killer!!!
I would dearly love to send Algore and the other leeches like him that are trying to increase their bottom line from this crap story back to the ice age… bury them all in Siberia… bunch of con artists that need to be charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, theft, plagiarism, stupidity, extreme ugliness, wasting oxygen, contributing to starvation of children (if he were dead, there would be tons of food for the starving), and who knows how many other charges
April 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pmFor those of you who like a real scientist’s analysis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaeyMa3jyU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwzO-lcWGuU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1sM1qIJQ5E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtRFC3tI25o&feature=related
Four YouTube clips of less than 10 minutes each. Shreds Algore to pieces. With some laughs. He’s a kiwi from NZ, by the way.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pmUh, didn’t Greenland get it’s name cuz,…well..it used to be green?
WTF- Global warming, if it’s happening, ain’t man-made–I’ll warrant all the fucking hot air from liberalism in the past 60 yrs has done more damage than any other source of “emissions”…
April 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pmMan-bear-pig. Thats freakin great. Huge SP fan.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pmManmade GW = BS.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:14 pmEven if a little above a third believe it. The idiots in congress and in each of our states are passing laws as if it is real - Bio-fuels, Carbon taxes on utilities(which means a tax on us), allowing the trading of Carbon credits(financial fraud),putting a scare to all the kids in school, etc, etc. The MSM buys it, the dems in power buy it, and we still suffer from thier stupidity.
Going green is simple. Just add as much CO2 to the atmosphere as possible. The plants love it!
April 21st, 2008 at 7:04 pm4 points:
1. 96% of carbon emissions are natural
2. Al gore is profitting from the hysteria
3. Al gore isnt an expert yet he leads the charge
4. In the late 70’s global cooling was the myth with so many failed predictions.
all good points to reject the entire myth.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:40 pmGive it 30 years. We’ll either hear this again, after the scare tactics die of, or the reverse.
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 am