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trbixler says:
Mr. green Obama is still in office and Lisa Jackson is still trying to kill as many jobs as possible with regulatory efforts. Hansen still sits atop GISS while trying, with much success, to kill coal fired electrical plants while fiddling the temperature record. The government grants to prove AGW continue.
Surveys like this are important.
Politicians keep half an eye on public opinion. They need to know what policies are lilely vote winners. While tax and spend will always be important to politicians that is a dream scenario when public opinion is behind the so called ‘evil’ and supports doing something about it.
As public opinion wanes against global warming, politicians will find it more difficult to justify policy and the fear of vote losing will gradually cause politicians to put plans on the back burner and may be even ditch them.
I suspect that if the public was made fully aware as to how the USA has cooled these past 15 or so years, there would be even less interest in global warming. Ditto, if it was properly explained to them the economic harm that has been caused by government policy and the loss of industry (and jobs) to China and other developing nations. To nail the lid of the coffin, the case for shale gas needs to be made strongly explaining the economic benefit of cheap energy.