Posted on 04/21/2008 1:31:35 PM PDT by Delacon
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 (emphasis added):
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.
Stay tuned.
—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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THE Goracle’s alarmism didn’t fail. He got EXACTLY what he wanted.
Cash, and LOTS and LOTS of ATTENTION.
Okay, who’s got that attention-whore pic?
I believe the first headline news noting humans are causing Global Warming was the New York Times in 1865.
Politicians are lower than street walkers.
Exit the stage you insufferable POS !!!
“Cash, and LOTS and LOTS of ATTENTION.”
Bingo!
Liberalism is a disease, considering all who voted for this POS and lapped up his crap on Global Warming. What fools.
When we get to “90% of Americans know that Albore is a fatuous ranting gasbag” then we’ll really have achieved something!
If this graph were an EEG, the patient would be considered legally dead in Florida.
and Algore is just as annoying as he was 19 years ago...
Not if you watched “Alaskan Expedition” on Discovery Channel last night. It was nothing but propaganda.
People know our problem is too little dihydrogen monoxide NOT too much carbon dioxide.
Global Warmers and the new Y2K’ers and in time will look as stupid as they actually are
It made me sick.
“Politicians are lower than street walkers.”
Please don’t insult sreet walkers at least they work for their money. LOL!
Guess what #1 was?
the problem is,,,no one cares what we think,it’s a political/religious hysteria that has won over the U.N.,individual governments,educators,sadly alot of christian churches,and of course all the elite liberals of the world.This beast will consume us because the powers that be want it,it’s the perfect scam,the perfect way to control everything,blaming the weather on free enterprise/capitalism,cows,oil,coal, even human breathing!!!...I hope we can turn this around,back to some sanity,,but who knows.
“Not if you watched “Alaskan Expedition” on Discovery Channel last night. It was nothing but propaganda.”
It couldn’t have been much worse than the history channel which had a special on the 7 most likely ways mankind will be wiped out. Global Warming was #1 and they interviewed man-bear-pig himself.
No, that was the first headline noting a “War on Drugs”
Actually I found a whole bunch of old newspapers from the turn of the century (19th-20th) at a yard sale 10 years ago,, and was not surprised at all to see all the coverage of “the drug problem” in our major cities, esp. NYC, and how the Politicos of the day were “waging war” on it.
Your tax dollars at work, in perpetuity, across the decades and centuries, forever.Ad infinitum.
“Not if you watched “Alaskan Expedition” on Discovery Channel last night. It was nothing but propaganda.”
Clicked through that pretty fast.
The pristine environment of a science-y nature show ruined by man’s incessent need to agitate with propaganda sprawl.
I can’t remember what show it was on and who was interviewing algore but I’ll never forget one of his asnwers to a question that was something about “what do you say to the folks who don’t accept the whole idea of global warming, for lack of proof. His answer, “Oh I think just about everybody now accepts the truth of global warming.
This article proves that beyond beyond. We do accept the truth. It’s just that algore does NOT have the truth in him.
I’ll be so glad when Showtime shows AIT their contracted times and get it the heck out of the lineup. It takes up space where a good movie could be shown.
Except for the moonbats, I don’t think anyone here is worried about global warming since we have been having record breaking low temperatures and snow. It is only 42 degrees here today. Normally it would be 60 degrees. It has been snowing in the lowlands off and on for the last week. Some areas just got a dusting and others 5 to 10 inches. I would be more apt to believe in global cooling.
“Guess what #1 was? “
I saw about 5 seconds of it - Al Gore was on...
so the biggest threat to mankind must be ... defeated Democratic presidential candidates?!?
GE and Westinghouse must be building plants in Mexico...
Furthermore, streetwalkers are more honest, and they usually mean it when they promise a good time.
Twice as, since there’s that much more of him...
I'd like to see the "CFL" that stands up to use in my electric self-cleaning oven. Then there is the light over my wife's aquarium and the light in our chest freezer. When they stop making filament bulbs there is going to be hell to pay over all the "special application" bulbs.
Regards,
GtG
I think the War on drugs head line goes back to the 1600’s where they called cigarettes “cancer sticks”.
I still think humans causing Global warming was 1865
This is actually very good news! Now if we could at least get some of these GANG-GREEN worshippin Republican electeds offa this abject nonsense!!!
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