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.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

ONE DEGREE. That’s how much the earth has warmed in the last 100 years. Since 1998, the earth has been cooling, right or wrong?

I liken the scientists to experts on the stock market. When the consensus leans heavily towards one side, that inevitably spells the top or bottom and a reversal is near. In 1974, the consensus was global cooling, right when it started to warm up.

[GOPJ]

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.”

Ping

[Rurudyne]

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.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!

Orwell's Big Brother would be as proud as Orwell would be horrified!

[Rurudyne]

Thanks for the ping.

[ZX12R]

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

Just damn unbelievable is right. It really says it all, doesn't it?