Marc Sheppard, American Thinker
The latest Rasmussen poll reports that the lowest number of voters ever polled -- one-in-three -- believe that global warming is caused by human activity. That's an astonishing figure, especially considering the all-out green propaganda assault the mainstream media (MSM) exposes the public to on a daily basis.
After all, it's become nearly impossible to open a magazine, unfold a newspaper or turn on the television without being scolded about the selfishness of your energy consumption and the damage your unworthy existence does to the planet. And yet, Friday's Rasmussen found that forty-eight percent of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, not their so-called carbon-footprint. That's up 4% in less than three months.
Aided by an all-too-eager
MSM, policy makers speak of manmade climate change as "settled science"
and perpetrate the lie that only a few "fringe" scientists question its
tenets. Nevertheless, the latest Gallup Poll reports that 41% of Americans consider global warming to be an exaggeration. That's up 11% in just 3 years.
So despite a MSM that spoon feeds its audience the latest alarmist crap about how manmade CO2
kills polar bears, threatens coastal cities and islands, incubates all
manner of pestilence and so on and so on, the number of people
actually buying into their still-unsubstantiated carbo-chondria
continues to shrink.
Speaking at last month's 2nd
Annual International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC), a gathering
of over 700 scientists, economists, and policy makers that the MSM
either completely ignored or debased as the "denier's conference,"
James Taylor explained why. The Heartland Institute senior fellow
credited talk radio, cable television, the internet, and blogs with providing information to the American public "whether the mass media wants them to have it or not."
I couldn't agree more. What's more, the availability of such information from Alternative Media sources has had a tremendous impact on public opinion.
Earlier
in the conference Larry Solomon explained that polls in Canada showed
that those who believe in consensus feared global warming. Yet those
who have heard from skeptics EVEN ONCE do not. Quite a strong position
- theirs. Any guesses why alarmists stifle dissenting opinion on the
subject?
Also
speaking at ICCC, Lord Monckton of Brenchley referred to alarmists as
"bed-wetting moaning Minnies of the Apocalyptic Traffic-Light Tendency
-- those Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds," and then
added:
"Every opinion poll--even those conducted by the bed-wetters themselves - shows that global public opinion is cooling as fast as the global climate. In one recent survey, 'global warming' came at the very bottom of a list of political and environmental concerns, immediately behind the need to clean up dog-poop on the streets. Why? Because dog-poop is a real environmental problem and 'Global warming' is not. The correct policy response to the non-problem of climate change is to have the courage to do nothing."
Indeed,
the latest Gallup poll concurs. Global warming ranked last in public
concern among eight specific environmental issues. Dead last. And I
doubt it would have fared any better had dog crap been a menu item.
Which
is exactly why the Big Green Scare Machine has shifted into overdrive.
After all, the planet is cooling, not warming. IPCC models predicted
1°F warming by 2011, but there's been none since 1998, so they are well on their way to being proven completely wrong. In fact, the 1°F drop in 2008 was the largest global temperature change ever recorded.
2008 was the coolest year and March 2009 was the coolest March of the
century. Meanwhile, diminished sunspot activity since 2000 and Pacific
Sea Surface cooling since 2008 predict a 20-30 year global cooling due to short term Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
But
if you weren't a consumer of Alternative Media, and particularly the
New Media (ezines, blogs, etc.), you wouldn't know that, would you?
You'd likely continue to believe the lame MSM warnings that we're
running out of time to save the planet. And given the acute rise in
public skepticism that one monster of a winter energized, just imagine
the panic the specter of decades of cooling stirs in those whose dreams
of controlling our energy consumption - and thereby our lives -- depend
entirely upon an alarmed populace.
You
see, it's actually climate alarmists that are running out of time --
and they know it. Policy makers know very well that time grows short
to implement their carbon control schemes. And the media face a
similar problem. Sure, today NBC launches yet another of
their excruciatingly silly "Green is Universal" weeks to celebrate this
year's Earth Day on Wednesday. And once again they'll sully their often
worthwhile conservation tips by spreading carbon phobia and climate
alarmism throughout their broadcast and myriad cable networks.
But
these recent public opinion shifts suggest that more and more people
will be turned off by such counterfeit tactics, and will in turn turn
off their TVs and head over to sites like American Thinker to immerse their minds in the MSM alternative.
The whole truth.
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