Bad news for Nobel laureate Al Gore and his not-too-merry band of tree huggers. Rasmussen Reports has released the results of its latest opinion poll, and for the first time, a majority (51%) of Americans are not buying into the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) myth:
Forty-four percent (44%) of U.S. voters now say long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming, compared to 41% who blame it on human activity.
Seven percent (7%) attribute global warming to some other reason, and nine percent (9%) are unsure in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The percentage who believe that global warming is the result of long term cyclical warming and cooling of the earth has jumped ten points since Rasmussen last polled on the issue:
In April of last year, 47% of Americans blamed human activity versus 34% who viewed long-term planetary trends as the culprit. But the numbers have been moving in the direction of planetary trends since then.
Dr. Stephen Chu, who will be Secretary of Energy in the Obama Administration, will no doubt take a dim of view these poll results:
Dr. Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning professor of physics and molecular biology and Director of the famed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is quietly passionate about the challenge and dangers of climate change, and has reoriented his research to pursue work on the subject. He understands it is difficult for people to see climate change as a clear and present danger, and is trying to challenge conventional wisdom and teach people to see how global warming is a crisis for our society. He is disturbed that despite the highly publicized release of the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for global warming education, the public’s grasp of the crisis seems weak.
The likely reaction of the new Energy Secretary and the other AGW true believers on Team Obama to the results of this poll, will be to better “educate” the “ignorant” majority. Expect a flood of public service announcements on television and radio warning the great unwashed of the impending climate “crisis.”
Remember, government always knows better than the citizens what is good for them, and there’s no limit to the amount of the citizens’ money it will spend to constantly remind us.
- JP
The real problem
10ksnooker Monday, January 19th at 3:28PM EST (link)Is we are whistling ourselves into a food crop shortage. Cold is bad for crops.
Halleluah!
Praying Monday, January 19th at 3:49PM EST (link)And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set ye free. Finally, Finally the message is getting out - AGW is a hoax - a scientific farce, a slur to all real scientists everywhere. The only scientists for whom there is a consensus about global warming is the “social engineers” - and I use the term engineer VERY loosely! There have been some excellent articles published lately - that show fairly conclusively that when one considers the entire history of the earth (not just the past 200 years) there have been warming and cooling periods throughout time, and in fact, carbon dioxide levels are at about their LOWEST point since the Cambrian era. Yes, the truth is inconvenient, especially when a liberal has to say that they were wrong - oh, wait, liberals never admit they were wrong, nor do they ever say I’m sorry. I forgot. Liberal rule book.
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another Cockstradamus prediction coming true
Mike gamecock DeVine Monday, January 19th at 3:51PM EST (link)Global warming is a growing joke and Obama better be careful with his greenie stuff while prmising jobs from the stimulus, lest he get caught only creating jobs for job killing enviromental impact statement lawyers.
He can lose his magic with real folks.
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He'll likely use it to "create jobs"...
NightTwister Monday, January 19th at 4:13PM EST (link)…but will probably hold off on the carbon tax at least until (if) the economy improves.
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agreed, but what I want us to do is put the spotlight on the "taxing"
Mike gamecock DeVine Monday, January 19th at 5:29PM EST (link)lawyers and bureaucrats and their job delaying and job killing actions that are taking place now and will take place after the pork govt job stimulus bill passes and call Obama out to clear the way for real jobs. Pit Obama against his greenie allies in full view of the people that voted for him because he promised jobs for non-lawyers. And see that his yak yak about getting this bill passed on day one urgency was a crock as environmental impact studies are all the rage as lawyers get jobs.
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Yes, just like the urgency of TARP was a crock...nt.
NightTwister Monday, January 19th at 10:07PM EST (link)Get Connected in Colorado.
C.R.O.C.K
izoneguy Monday, January 19th at 10:23PM EST (link)McCain fell for it, he got TARPED
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Yes, I do think McCain should have opposed TARP and
Mike gamecock DeVine Monday, January 19th at 10:28PM EST (link)pushed for Cantor or Forbes or Newt’s solutions at the time.
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Well, not exactly, and I was against TARP, but
Mike gamecock DeVine Monday, January 19th at 10:27PM EST (link)something had to be done with urgency then given the freexing of bank to bank loans, but I get your point!
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that's a good idea, devine
icbm Monday, January 19th at 10:40PM EST (link)ya got brains, boy
thanks icbm - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine Tuesday, January 20th at 11:52AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Looks like BHO may need those re-education camps, after all. nt
Vegas_Rick Monday, January 19th at 3:54PM EST (link)“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Wait 'til summer.
scottbomb Monday, January 19th at 4:00PM EST (link)Algore’s hybernating. He’ll be busy again come July.
And if Obama and Congress want to pass “green” laws, there’s not a darn thing we can do about it except wait ’til 2010 or 2012 when we can make our case to the American people. Nothing gets their attention like their empty wallets ($4 gas tax anyone?). In fact, it’s starting to seem like money is the ONLY thing that gets their attention. [Unless of course we get another wishy-washy candidate like McCain who's just as willing to "do something" about "climate change".]
http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
We are in the bottom of a solar cycle
ColbyS Monday, January 19th at 4:08PM EST (link)We are in the bottom of the ~10-year solar cycle [source below], and as a result we are bound to have a couple of cold winters resulting in fewer people believing in AGW.
I guess the true question is whether this low spot is colder than the last low spot (around 1997), the trend of the previous 50 low spots before that, and whether this whole mess can be linked with reasonable confidence to CO2 levels.
Source:
http://www.pmodwrc.ch/tsi/composite/pics/comp06_d41_61_0812.png
more complete source
ColbyS Monday, January 19th at 4:10PM EST (link)sorry for the image jack, here is a meatier source
http://www.pmodwrc.ch/pmod.php?topic=tsi/composite/SolarConstant
Low spots
zuiko Monday, January 19th at 5:51PM EST (link)Remember 1998 being the hottest year on record? The only thing you can state with reasonable confidence is that the “climate experts” have no idea what they are talking about and just making things up to fit their pre-determined outcome.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
A pretty cool article from a climate expert
George Claghorn Monday, January 19th at 4:11PM EST (link)On Global Warming:
Al Gore is a Greenhouse Gasbag
“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
N.B.: A geologist. nt
Vladimir Monday, January 19th at 4:52PM EST (link)There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Same difference.
George Claghorn Monday, January 19th at 5:05PM EST (link)“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
Not always...
Praying Monday, January 19th at 6:11PM EST (link)I’m a geologist, not a climate expert, but Dr. G of the article has dedicated most of his adult life studying climatic change, so in this case, he is both. Still, from all I’ve read on the subject, I’m willing to be on the record for saying AWG is a hoax, a propaganda conspiracy theory by the left to further their desire to destroy our economy. Is it just me, or are most on the left so far removed from any connection to or experience with actual capitalism that they can’t possibly understand it? I mean what does a government employee, a college professor, or a lawyer know about running a business (and apologies to any RS members out there who are in those fields and have taken the time to educate themselves).
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Praying, here's a graph & a link
Vladimir Monday, January 19th at 7:46PM EST (link)Seems like Mother Gaia managed to handle much higher CO2 concentrations in the past.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
one side effect the moonbats might notice
woodsman Monday, January 19th at 8:20PM EST (link)is that the Carboniferous period has the word carbon in it, so some idiot might think it was named because of excess carbon. They way they ignore facts and draw conclusions it would not be surprising…
The Carboniferous Period...
Vladimir Tuesday, January 20th at 8:52AM EST (link)… (aka the Mississippian & Pennsylvanian in the U.S.) is so-named because of the abundance of coal beds of that age worldwide.
That means there was a lot of vegetation — that’s one way Mother Gaia works off an excess of atmospheric carbon dioxide: it stimulates the growth of green plants.
Another mechanism is the increased uptake of carbon dioxide in the ocean, which in turn gets precipitated as calcium carbonate, or limestone. All those high concentrations of atmospheric CO2 turned into massive carbonate rock layers back in Paleozoic time. Just ask John McCain.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Praying, I am actually kinda late to this realization
kyle8 Tuesday, January 20th at 9:00AM EST (link)I admit that I was fooled for a long time into believing there was something to this hoax.
But I should have been more wary. All the warning signs were there.
(1) Scare tactics and sensationalist articles, just like with “ozone hole, population bomb, Y2K “scares and others before this one.
(2) Reliance on computer models and consensus with scant real evidence, and some of that contradictory
(3) Adapting to the ever changing situation, Real scientific theories don’t adapt, they are either reinforced, or discarded. They don’t change when contradictory evidence is found, so that the conclusion can be kept.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Only 7 years til Doomsday per Al Gore...
6eorge Jetson Tuesday, January 20th at 9:17AM EST (link)As long as the silliness is going to exist, maybe we can make some use out of it.
I’m forming a team to sneak into Al Gore’s spacious mansion as that day approaches to turn the heaters up to max upon the clock striking zero.
Lord knows there’s enough room in that place to hide. I just hope the heaters have enough power to heat that cavernous place.
Sorry, Mr. Claghorn, my comment was a non-sequitur.
Vladimir Monday, January 19th at 7:37PM EST (link)See my previous comment here:Au contraire, Praying, AGW is your area of expertise
We have not heard from enough geologists. This is the only scientific discipline that understands time frames & previous cooling cycles.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Every once in a while the TRUTH sneaks through....
JadedByPolitics Monday, January 19th at 6:10PM EST (link)and smacks otherwise apathetic Americans in the face and they go “hmmm that doesn’t sound right”….one battle in a long war with the idiots on the left my friends there are many more to go!
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
Heh, Heh, let's see those poll numbers
izoneguy Monday, January 19th at 6:44PM EST (link)after the coal companies go bankrupt and millions are left freezing in the dark.
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Well, the good/bad news is that since AGW was a
septembergurl Monday, January 19th at 6:58PM EST (link)hoax created by the left in order to gain some control over the economy, it’s no longer necessary since we now have a real economic crisis that invites nationialization, subsidising & so on. I suspect that Obama will quietly drop this part of his program since it’s (a) something only a moron could believe and (b) no longer necessary in the era of bailouts and government takeovers. Oh sure, there will be some bitterenders, but when Obama puts out the new party line, his braindead followers will adopt it immediately.
It doesn't matter
DerKrieger Monday, January 19th at 9:06PM EST (link)if Obama takes no direct action to curb CO2 emissions by passing a cap and trade bill. He will indirectly work toward the same goal by reimposing drilling bans, making the permitting process for new coal plants expensive and nearly impossible to navigate and he will subsidize wasteful alternative energy programs.
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” - Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence (OBAMACARE – mine), the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
And, to add more fuel to the fire (or ice to the freeze)...
mbecker908 Monday, January 19th at 7:08PM EST (link)HT to the guys at Powerline…
I find it interesting that finally scientists are standing up to the lie. They’re showing real professional courage doing it, now the question is, will our politicians (note: I didn’t say political leaders…) stand for truth as well?
Oh, swell.
Vladimir Monday, January 19th at 7:32PM EST (link)This news means that TV & print media really have to turn up the heat, as it were, on the propaganda.
The National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, PBS… We used to joke that were it not for Hitler and Vietnam, there’d be no “educational” TV. Now the same can be said for AGW.
And the new administration has economic policy centered on carbon-reduction policy.
Us clingers out here in flyover country are just too thick to get it.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer