I guess you would like to know what is working, huh? All the clap trap about the idea that climate change/global warming is nothing more than a made up phenomena of the Left, the Liberals, the …..basically, all the propaganda out there disputing the existence of global warming…..
After a couple of years of attacks by conservative, pro-business lobbyist against any reforms that would lead to the reduction of green house gases and all their hard word, even though most of it is misleading and in some cases out right lies, has had a positive effect for the lobbies that get paid huge dollars for their efforts.
The UK’s Guardian newspaper has a story about the successes of the anti-warming groups:
The number of Americans who believe in global warming has plummeted, falling 20% in two years, a survey said today.Only 57% of Americans believe there is solid scientific evidence that the Earth’s atmosphere is warming, said the poll of 1,500 people by the Pew Research Centre for the People & the Press.
That is a fall of 77% from 2007. The number of people who believe that human activity is causing global warming also fell to just 36%.
The public uncertainty about the evidence behind global warming comes as the Senate prepares to begin debate next week on climate change legislation. Yesterday, 18 scientific organisations wrote Congress to reaffirm the consensus behind global warming.
The decline was sharpest among independent voters and Republicans. Republicans in Congress have almost uniformly lined up against climate change legislation. There were also regional differences, with people in the mid-west and Rocky mountain states less inclined to see climate change as a serious problem.
But the perceived lack of concrete evidence for global warming did not necessarily hurt the prospects of voting on climate change legislation, Dimock said. Half of Americans polled remain in favour of putting limits and carbon emissions and making companies pay for their emissions — the basics of the cap and trade bill now before the Senate.
A majority, 56%, also want America to join other countries in a global agreement on climate change.
If you consider the results of the survey then the money spent by companies was well spent…..all the misleading BS like “clean coal” is working, or that drilling off shore will give the US independence from foreign oil, are among the most popular twists being used by the lobbyists….and Damn! It is working!
Global warming is a fact that it’s very hard to dispute. Whether it is just an “up” in the roller coaster that is our mean temperature on this planet over millennia is something else entirely.
That of course brings us smack up against the cause and THAT could be that it’s all about us – humanity and our industrialisation, our cattle (which are much more serious source of greenhouse gases than CO2) – or, in fact, whether we as a species have any fucking thing to do with it at all! We may have, but the heavily biased and so, so, SO bad science they use to “prove” it is simply useless. With that sort of science you can prove that black is white (wouldn’t THAT piss off the GOP?)!
Global warming – is clearly happening. Increased so-called “greenhouse” gases in the atmosphere – are easily measurable. Connection between the two? PURE SPECULATION until they do proper and totally INDEPENDENT (where could you find THAT these days?) studies in a GENUINE scientific fashion.
Oh, and forget fucking statistical analysis entirely! Such “adjusted figures” can show that the moon is made of green cheese (when everyone knows perfectly well that it’s Blue Stilton)! 👿
I agree completely….but these damn lobbyists are working overtime to sway the people and I am atraid that are succeeding….I would like to live another 100 years so I can say ….”told you fucking so”……
Yeah. Me too. But there will be all sorts of other obviously unlikely crap flying around by then, so I have to ask myself whether I could really stand another hundred years of this shit even if I had the opportunity – the answer, I’m afraid, is probably not 😈
PS: All that said, SUSTAINABILTY is VITAL – not destroying the rainforests, reducing unnecessary carbon emissions and, above all, researching (requires money to be spent – duh!) on moving to a MUCH more efficient means of supplying power to both industry, homes and vehicles etc., than our current, totally antiquated systems that only the oil industry wants to perpetuate.
Science (big science like matter transmutation, long distance space travel, opening up new worlds, teleportation and much more) will NEVER move beyond the fantasy stage unless a new, sustainable, clean and almost unlimited source of power is developed. It exists – it must do or the universe itself wouldn’t exist either – we just have to discover it and then harness it for our own benefit!