Warmists are so cute when they attempt to prop up their dying cult
(Huffington Post) If you follow the popular polls, you might think that Americans are growing ever more skeptical about man-made climate change — despite the consensus among published climate scientists.
That’s simply not true, Jon Krosnick of Stanford University told an audience of social scientists and cognitive researchers Wednesday, in Garrison, N.Y. He maintained that most Americans do, in fact, believe.
Gallup and Pew polls show that the percentage of Americans that believe in climate change now hovers around 50 percent, but Krosnick’s latest poll — which asked the question in a more detailed way — suggests the figure is 83 percent — up from 79 percent in 1997. Of the global warming believers, the majority also reported thinking that the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities play a role. The trend held after the researchers broke the data down by political party: 66 percent of Republicans said climate change is happening.
Looking at the poll, conducted September 8-11, 2011, what we find is spin. In Table 2, which was “Belief about the Causes of Global Warming”, we find for all respondents
- Things people do 26.60%
- Natural causes 26.74%
- Both equally 44.92%
- Global warming is partly or mostly caused by things people do 71.52%
Things people do went down 3.96%, and Natural causes went up 3.16% from the survey the previous year. But, that last figure is disingenuous, because, first, you could easily say “global warming is partly or mostly caused by nature and get 71.66%. Secondly, the poll didn’t ask a big question “caused to a small degree by things people do.” That’s where I stand.
And the 83% figure from the HuffPo article? That’s nowhere to be found in the survey. The closest is Democrat belief in the 2010 survey.
For democracy to work, according to Brophy, we need to understand how and why people don’t trust the scientific facts.
Research has shown that people are motivated to find information that supports their beliefs. “Encountering counterarguments causes us to marshal forces like an army of white blood cells to defend against them,” said Brophy.
He pointed to the influence of massive disinformation campaigns such as the recently outed Heartland Institute. “This is a real threat to democracy,” he told HuffPost.
And there’s Democrat Fascist world: debate and disagreement is not allowed. And let’s not forget, some of those documents were faked.
