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BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:59:26 AM
A new poll out finds that three out of four people thing climate change is still a very real problem.
The AP-Stanford poll of 1,005 adults contacted by telephone in November suggests that people’s concerns about climate change have not changed significantly.
That’s contrary to several other recent surveys. In October, according to a poll of 1,500 adults conducted by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, 57 percent said there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer. That was a 20 percent decline from three years earlier.
You have got to pay attention to the first line; "contrary to several other recent surveys". That should give you pause immediatly. Why would this survey be so different than all the others? I can give you three reasons: the AP, Standford University, and the polling company.
All of them left leaning organizations. They poll intercity people, who generally trend left to get the desired slant they need. It's a stupid game that has been going on for years, on both sides. Yet, the Pew Research Center, who is no right leaning organization, yet is well respected in the polling place came to a totally different conclusion.
The one intesting thing in the AP/Stanford Poll was this interesting bit of info:
While three-quarters of respondents said they support action to combat climate change, just as many said they would oppose the “cap and trade” legislation to limit heat-trapping pollution if it raised their electricity bill by $25 a month. Almost six in 10 balked if it meant paying $10 extra a month for electricity.
Even though they found the people who are concerned about climate change, they also managed to find the same ones that are willing to do nothing about it. Can't win them all I guess. So, the next logical question would be to question their answers, right? Change the question to say, "Do you believe breast cancer will affect future generations?" You would get a resounding "Yes". Then ask if they would be will to give ten dollars a month to fight it, and the numbers of those willing to pay would be much higher. Why? Because nearly everyone has known or has someone in their family that has or has had breast cancer. They have seen the consequences of breast cancer. But climate change has yet to affect anyone except those the media says it has.
That is part of the reason why people don't want to pay for mitigation of climate change. It is not personal yet. Even though the climate nutters and their media henchmen have been promoting it for 30 years now, no amount of money or attention in the world can make it personal to the general public. Actually there is one way to make it personal, turn it into a religion. That is already under way.
Regardless, it is all a question of science being tossed around on a field of corrupt scientists, politicians, and mass media. The good thing is, we now have them on the defensive.