Noel Sheppard.
Despite years of hysterical, Al Gore-loving media hype that humans are destroying the planet by emitting too much carbon dioxide, more Americans now believe global warming is being caused by long-term planetary forces rather than man’s activities.
This represents a stunning reversal in the past twelve months, and is likely a function of a recent global cooling that has thwarted efforts by climate alarmists to convince citizens that the warming trend that began in the mid-’70s was going to continue forever if the world didn’t immediately stop burning fossil fuels.
Now, according to Rasmussen Reports, those believing man can actually control the planet’s thermostat have plummeted in number:
Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, while seven percent (7%) blame some other reason. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure.
These numbers reflect a reversal from a year ago when 47% blamed human activity while 34% said long-term planetary trends.
Maybe this is why climate alarmists like Joe Romm are getting more and more insane with their claims on this issue.
After all, with the planet cooling — and destined to do so for many years to come according to most meteorologists and climatologists — the window of opportunity to tax carbon emissions is shrinking.
People like Gore, James Hansen, and Romm know this, and that’s why the pressure to get Congress to act quickly on carbon cap and trade legislation has been ramped up.
With that in mind, if such a scheme is not enacted this year — which Hill watchers view as very likely due to other priorities facing the nation — and temperatures do continue to cool thereby further reducing the public’s belief in the anthropogenic global warming myth, the probability of such legislation ever coming to fruition gets lower and lower.
That’s what I call a convenient truth.
Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters
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Guest Contributor
dcrowley11
02/12/2010
Hi,
Couldn’t wait to respond to this one.
The reason we are having the current freak snow storms is due to the global warming creating freak wind currents allowing the cold air to reach farther into the North American continent.
This and the overwhelming data to support mankind creating this situation is supported by a majority of scientists.
But, if you don’t want to believe the qualified information maybe you’ll believe the fact that we are running out of oil supplies (substantiated by one of Mobil/Exxon’s geologists and other sources) and you can use that as a reason that we need to switch our energy base. Please choose at least one because we’re either going to keep going to war for it and/or ruin our planet and lives in the process.
dcrowley11
03/08/2010
Please do not assume I only read journalism spin for my information and please update your information to include the part that includes global warming will adjust the air currents pushing the normally cold air flows south and thus resulting in colder winters in more southern latitudes and warmer conditions in the north thus giving us warmer Olympics and record snow falls in the southern US regions.
That’s science – not journalism. The situation we have now is not a simple fluke. The quicker everyone realizes this the quicker we can respond more appropriately on a global scale.
By the way, I was reading about this in 1970 before I even knew who Al Gore was.