A Gallup Poll taken last week asked Americans what they consider to be the most important problem facing the U.S. The government came in at #1, and the economy at #2.
Notable by its absence from the 14-item list, which includes only those “most important” problems mentioned by at least 2% of respondents, is one putatively huge problem, the biggest problem on earth, supposedly, one that receives a constant drumbeat of coverage in the MSM.
Whoops:
The Kyoto treaty effectively expired a year ago. Prospects for a replacement are virtually zero. Rich nations are rejecting climate compensation for the developing world. Europe is in a coal frenzy. Germany, a former green trend-setter, is slashing unaffordable subsidies to the renewables industry. The European Parliament is losing confidence in the EU emissions trading scheme. No Asian nation has an emission trading scheme in operation…(G)overnments, most recently Japan’s, are abandoning earlier pledges to reduce their nations’ carbon footprints. Even US Democrats…won’t pass modest carbon-pricing bills in the Congress. Add to this those debunked predictions…
Buh-bye, Chicken Little. Go home to your media coverage.
one could laugh had it not cost everyone so much
Orwell had this right too, government created boogeyman to exercise thought control
To reinforce the importance of the comment, note that the Sydney Morning Herald is a solid lefty paper that is always pushing lefty causes. The final nail would be when the even more leftist Melbourne Age runs a skeptical piece.
Last night on the CBC National, the failed weather forecast of 1 year and 1 week ago was shown by the meteorologist near the end of the show. It was claimed that it was the 1 year anniversary of a weather event, however see the following for the actual event compared to the forecast:
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/02/how-well-did-that-50-degree-forecast-work-out-for-the-bom/
Al and David, the jig is up.
RIP AGW!
Reading the comments, it’s more than obvious that one is in deep lefty territory. Printing the truth in this paper is like reading that green energy is a waste of time on the CBC. A rare occurrence indeed. The zombies just can’t handle it.
Happy as I am to see AGW beginning to go the way of the dodo, I’m not going to celebrate. This is the crowd that moved seamlessly from global cooling, to acid rain, to ozone depletion, to global warming. Each time one scheme falls apart, they’re ready with another to replace it.
Right now, I’m mostly keeping an eye out for the next environmentalism-as-wealth-transfer scheme.
HILARIOUS Jimmy Kimmel Live skit on Obamacare::
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/01/video-jimmy-kimmel-and-new-obamacare.html
50C, my highest temp was 48C at Aswan,Egypt , easily surpassing my previous 40C fog drenched day in Venice Italy.
I sweat at about 25, I scare people at 40, my sweat sprays at 48
“This is the crowd that moved seamlessly from global cooling, to acid rain, to ozone depletion, to global warming. Each time one scheme falls apart, they’re ready with another to replace it.”
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So true, so true.
Global warming morphed into climate change.
Next thematic variation will be climate collapse soon to be followed by climate apocalypse.
Each time one scheme falls apart, they’re ready with another to replace it.
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“It seems to me that we have to change course.”
“I don’t believe that you pull together these meetings and you’re going to solve all the problems in one fell swoop,” Schmidt said. But, he argued,
“the U.N. ‘climate regime’
is just one of many places climate activists need to invest time and effort to bring about change.”
With the future of the planet at stake, they argue, they should only be raising the bar.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-effort-to-combat-combat-climate-change-may-not-end-in-paris-next-year
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They are not going to give up, the battle must continue..
So true. The Marxist quest for a communist utopia will continue.
“Climate change Cassandras” is a misnomer. Cassandra had the gift of prophecy and the curse that she would never be believed. These people are the reverse, our curse is that they are widely believed, but the gift is their prophecies are untrue.
It was always a distraction. The government is always growing. It will not shrink, absent blood. DC gets rich, while the country suffers. They cannot fix the economy. Look – Warming. Kim Kardashian. Racist. Bridge. But never stop villifying those who want to curb the almighty government.
EBD: Notable by its absence from the 14-item list, which includes only those “most important” problems mentioned by at least 2% of respondents, is one putatively huge problem
However, the scientific community has not changed their opinion that anthropogenic climate change is occurring.
Yeah that don’t mean the membership but that the heads of them academies (an old boys club fer sure) conspire not concur…..t’s all politics….
Watermelons…….
Hee hee! You link to SKS? I pity the fool.
Unhappy days for Climate fanatics with their co-enablers the Media.Never fear though, another grand scam is on its way.
sasquatch: Yeah that don’t mean the membership but that the heads of them academies (an old boys club fer sure) conspire not concur…..t’s all politics….
The academies represent many different countries under many different political systems with many different cultures. The evidence encompasses not just climate science, but related sciences as well.
gordinkneehill: Hee hee! You link to SKS?
Are you saying the website is not accurately reporting the HadCRUT data?
hadcrut
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/14/article-2217286-157E3ADF000005DC-561_644x358.jpg
Zachriel: http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/HadCRUT4vs3.jpg
Preposterous elbow at 1970, would be laughed out of the room in engineering circles.
Piece: Preposterous elbow at 1970, would be laughed out of the room in engineering circles.
Not sure that handwaving is much of an argument. Are you saying the temperature data is in error?
http://berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings
Yes, I’m saying I wouldn’t trust SKS to tell me if the Sun was shining; that’s what windows are for. SKS is a climate-alarmist propaganda site, and everything they post is geared to support climate alarmism. They make Jenny McCarthy look reasonable.
gordinkneehill: Yes, I’m saying I wouldn’t trust SKS to tell me if the Sun was shining
Well, we also cited the National Academies of Science of Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States.
Here’s the HadCRUT data from the original source.
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT4.png
Zachriel: http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/HadCRUT4vs3.jpg
Care to test that rubbish before a jury of your peers?
Any idea why they stopped their chart at year 2000 ? Could it be because it’s all downhill from there ? Giving out 14 year old data is not even worth lining the bird cage with.
At least you’re in good company.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.global-warming/SEXT3vTBgys
peterj: Any idea why they stopped their chart at year 2000 ?
They didn’t.
peterj: At least you’re in good company.
The Earth has experienced many periods of globally warmer and cooler climate due to a variety of causes, including changes in solar irradiance, orbital variations, atmospheric content, continental drift, volcanism, albedo, and the occasional object slamming into the Earth.