Posted on 10/04/2014 9:14:32 AM PDT by Signalman
Polls of voters consistently show that Americans place global warming (sometimes framed more generally as environmental concerns) at or near the bottom of their list of priorities. Most of the top concerns are almost always directly related to the economy.
Yet, there were approximately 125,000 people who turned out for the People’s Climate March in New York City. Why aren’t there even more people marching against the poor economy and unemployment, since those are the biggest concerns?
In a way, that really is what they were marching against. Mostly. Let me explain.
First, people really can’t get worked up over weather changes that they haven’t experienced themselves. With most Americans routinely dealing with temperature changes of 50 deg. F or more, they really don’t care much if the average changes by 1 deg. F. With the 18-year hiatus, most teenagers today haven’t even experienced global warming. We should also remember that people prefer warmth over cold. For example, over their lifetimes Americans preferentially move to where it’s warmer.
Second, when it comes to the environment, people have been warned by “scientists” of catastrophe for decades. Many of us were supposed to die long ago from heat, floods, storms, crop failure, etc. It didn’t happen. Global warming fatigue has been brewing for years, and is now firmly entrenched. Google Trends reveals that over the last 10 years, Google searches on “climate” have steadily decreased to about 50% of what they were, whereas interest in “weather” has increased by about 50%.
Next, those of us old enough to remember driving through Gary, Indiana in the 1960s and early 70s know how much cleaner our air and water are today. Smaller gains in “cleanliness” come at greater and greater cost now (although the EPA, which wants everything to be infinitely clean, does not seem to care about that). Unlike government bureaucrats, who get routine pay raises and job security no matter how much they hurt the business (our country), the people who actually pay the bills (taxpayers) still live in a cost-vs-benefits world.
Furthermore, most people understand that fossil fuels have been necessary for the prosperity that we all enjoy (at least those under political systems allowing people to benefit from their labors). Energy which currently is dominated by fossil fuels, and will be for decades to come.
Speaking of which, how’s this for a hockey stick?:
I think getting an extra 40 years of life in exchange for 1 to 2 deg. of warming is a pretty good deal. Might even be a win-win. So, do we really think that the People’s Climate March (which led up to the U.N. Climate Summit 2014) really was about climate?
There is considerable evidence that the People’s Climate March wasn’t as much about climate as it was an excuse for those who want a different political system. If you really believe that capitalism is destroying the Earth and hurting people — or even if you don’t really believe it — then environmentalism becomes a really good excuse to dump capitalism.
Especially if you can convince people you have some new and unusual statistical knowledge
Faith in G-d Almighty, actually.
Along with the present established religion, hiding in a fashionable disguise of a wholly imagined "neutrality," other idolatries abound, e.g., Earth worship, worship of the self, worship of whatever unity of imagined purpose and theatrical self-annihilation they presume to be provided by interchangeable flavors of destroying mass movements, e.g., Islam, fascism, communism , etc.
Pan-everything-ism -- anything except the God who brought them and their families to this remarkably blessed place; the God of Abraham, Issac and of Jacob, whom their ancestors acknowledged and their ancestors' ancestors, also.
The One who struck a tent of human flesh and dwelt among us.
In the word of the real "prophet," 2,700 years ago:
Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Well done!
The watermelon movement is as genuinely interested in the environment as the anti-war movement during the Bush Admin was genuinely interested in peace.
In other words, not all: the issue is never the issue, the issue is revolution.
There are few in the anti-war movement because the left has its man in the White House. However, he has found it difficult to accomplish his entire agenda due to resistance from Republicans and the Koch Brothers and the time limitations imposed by his golf game and gladhanding with Jay-Z.
So the watermelons are lending a hand by protesting to use the natural concern about the environment to end capitalism and impose a global totalitarian state (I don’t want to bother arguing whether it is a fascist totalitarian or communist totalitarian. That makes little difference.) Except for a number of pseudo-scientific CAGW fanatics and other academics who know how to capture grant money and get tenure in climate scientology, their cult followers, and gullible ignorami, the CAGW movement is a totalitarian movement.
I the 90s here today ... And I’m in the middle of moving homes.
It’s a LIE.
Next question?
“Mars is hotter now wonder how we did that?.”
The rover is polluting the atmosphere with it’s farts!
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
All of the liberals spreading lies about global warming, climate change will know what warming is if they continue to lie and end up in hell.
Read this page and you will see why we’ll never get the EPA back to mid-80’s levels. The EPA can only grow under Agenda 21.
http://americanpolicy.org/agenda21/
“Because it’s only Oct.4th and we’re already freezing to death.”
I deeply care about the mental health of the useful idiots buying into this scam and I especially care about the criminal element pushing the anthropogenic global warming hoax.
Bleeding eyeballs isn’t a symptom of Global Warming?
Because, in part, it’s been caricatured.
Everybody lies at some time or another. It came from the fall of mankind. Some of these folks may be honestly mistaken and are thus not in intentional sin. We must not twist theology to point out a class of specially bad sinners who are, of course, not like us, and thus going to hell with no hope.
b/c it’s all lies. why waste time on something built on lies.
NASA has a master plan LOL.
Maybe because glowbull warming is based on lies and false “data”, all in a vain effort by liberal Luddites to hold back progress of man and destroy machinery. Liberals are idiots that cannot handle such things as progress and want everyone to go live in caves.
THERE IS NO GLOWBULL WARMING!
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