Professors Baffled by Global Warming Survey

AZCONSERVATIVE ^ | 29 March 2008 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

A trio of university professors conducting a telephone survey on people’s responses to the “global warming crisis” were stunned to discover that the more informed the respondents were, the less alarmed they are. The results were reported in an article, titled “Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the USA” appearing in the journal Risk Analysis.

Dr. Paul M. Kellstedt, a political science professor at Texas A&M, called the results “unsettling.” “Considering the extensive efforts of former vice-president Al Gore, most of the media, and the academic community to alert people to this growing crisis, I’d call these responses unexpected,” Kellstedt said. “It’s like the more a person knows about the phenomenon, the less impressed they are about efforts to stir them to support government action to stem the crisis.”

Kellstedt said that “the better informed respondents were more likely to discount the significance of mankind’s role in climate change. They were also more pessimistic about the possibility that government could take effective action to alter outcomes.”

The professor called the results “depressing.” “It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,” Kellstedt said.

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[RightWhale]

This is straight talk truth. Does McCain know?

[eyedigress]

“It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,”

Sounds like he's got the liberal playbook well read.

[ssaftler]

“It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,”

You just can't make up sh!t like this.

[FreedomPoster]

Isn’t that special! A PolySci prof is “depressed” over this.

I consider myself pretty well informed on the technical aspects of this issue. I also have a technical background that gives me some insight into some of the technical side of this debate. I’d say a PolySci prof is pretty much unable by training to make any sort of reasoned judgment on the technical aspects of this debate.

He should keep his depression to himself and STFU about “the ignorant majority”.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“FReepers Baffled By John Semmens...”

;-)

[Jeff Head]

Considering the extensive efforts of former vice-president Al Gore, most of the media, and the academic community to alert people to this growing crisis, I’d call these responses unexpected,” Kellstedt said. “It’s like the more a person knows about the phenomenon, the less impressed they are about efforts to stir them to support government action to stem the crisis.”

Maybe that's because they recognize it for the sham it is you idiot.

As the article says, you are going to have to depend on your "useful idiots" to get this thing to stick. But we will keep whillting away at that with good old fashioned education via talk radio, the internet, email chains, etc. where your icons, AlGore and the MSM can't intrude.

...and for good measure, here's another sham exposed to the light:

THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND THE TRINITY CHURCH

[editor-surveyor]

“It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,”

Isn't that what they've always done? Rely on the Democrats to get their crazy adgenda rolling?

[The_Republican]

Man I can’t wait till they find genes that have aversion to Taxes and love for Guns.

We need to get in on this Gene action.

[ChocChipCookie]

“It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,” Kellstedt said.

The world just keeps getting more topsy turvy every day. It's hard to believe this isn't satire.

[GOPJ]

The professor called the results “depressing.” “It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,” Kellstedt said.

Who wants to bet this is the norm for most liberal ideas - - "liberal intellectuals backed by total idiots" ?

[Political Junkie Too]

"Considering the extensive efforts of former vice-president Al Gore, most of the media, and the academic community to alert people to this growing crisis...

Do I detect a bit of bias creeping into these professors' survey?

-PJ

[StACase]

“It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,”
You just can't make up sh!t like this.

Yes you can, and perhaps that's exactly what this is. I don't put it past the other side to post bogus crap in order to ridicule those who take the bate.

[rottndog]

The professor called the results “depressing.” “It looks like we will have to rely upon the more ignorant majority of the population to provide the political backing for the remedial measures needed to combat the problem,” Kellstedt said.

Funny, I thought that's what they always wanted anyway, given how completely they have destroyed public education.

[StACase]

I'm paranoid about the other side's capacity for dirty tricks, so I did a search, and looks like it's so:

Global Warming: The More You Know the Less You Care
Environment News Service

[PeteB570]

I LOVE THESE KINDS OF POSTS.

I start reading my blood pressure goes up and then I pick up on it.

To get ya’ it has to have believability about it.

[westmichman]

Liberalism will soon be found to be caused by a genetic imbalance or deficiency.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Semmens kicks Scrappleface butt!!