One other reason why people are increasingly skeptical of the climate change fearmongers: The "Cow-Gas-Conspiracy-to-Drown-Polar-Bears" just isn't 'cutting' it with the general public.
We're not that gullible...
Posted on 12/30/2007 11:23:36 AM PST by melt
British people are now convinced about the dangers of global warming but are either baffled about how to stop it or are ignoring the issue.
Analysts say few people are taking action to deal with the threat of climate change, although over the past 12 months the vast majority have come to accept that it poses a real threat to the world. Opinion polls reveal much confusion among the public about what Britain should do to combat the problem.
A backlash is now a real threat, said Phil Downing, head of environmental research for Ipsos Mori. 'There's cynicism because on the one hand we're being told [the problem] is very serious and on the other hand we're building runways, mining Alaskan oil; there's a lot going on that appears to be heading in the opposite direction.'
This is particularly evident in the huge public resistance to green taxes. 'There's a cynicism the government is using the green agenda as an excuse for hitting motorists and people who want to fly,' added Downing.
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A key factor will be the weather, said West. 'If we have a nice average year, whatever that means, people will say: "Climate change: what of it?" But if we have either an extreme heatwave or more flooding, I think there's going to be a cumulative effect. The next time we have a national-scale weather-related emergency, people will say: "Enough ... we can't allow this to be normal". In a way, if that happens, it makes our job easier, but clearly I don't want to wish a disaster on anyone.'
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One other reason why people are increasingly skeptical of the climate change fearmongers: The "Cow-Gas-Conspiracy-to-Drown-Polar-Bears" just isn't 'cutting' it with the general public.
We're not that gullible...
Those bears deserve to be there, staying on the berg until it melts and floats away.
This is “rich”. The Global Warming fearmongers now fear that Winter might actually occur...
“Enough ... we can’t allow this to be normal”.
How very human to think we can control everything.
....confiscating even MORE money from productive citizens.
"Global warming" hoax BUMP!
How does one “mine for oil” pray tell? I thought that you drilled for oil and mined for coal, gold, silver, copper, etc...
Are there any real journalists left?
I will never use one of those POS compact fluorescents. Their light is ugly. I use real 40” ones in kitchen and garage and incandescents (lots of GE Reveal) everywhere else
Fixed it.
Those bears are some of the greatest swimmers in the animal kingdom, but I guess that concept does not get much press
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DO Brits mine for oil in Alaska or is this just more carping about George Bush?
That’s what really gets me.
It’s the Green Gaia-Worshippers who think we can actually control Nature.
“Those bears are some of the greatest swimmers in the animal kingdom, but I guess that concept does not get much press”
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I’m a Polar Bear lover and I am seriously disappointed at how some of the most respected Ursus Arctos scientists have obediently hopped aboard the Global Warming bandwagon.
And I’m not exactly turning cartwheels over the way the Inuit are letting themselves be used either.
Better question, Are we drilling for new oil in Alaska?
Sneaky b*stards. Once the helpful human gets close, they EAT him.
That's the inconvienient truth.
My retired social worker neighbor (that still has the Kerry/Edwards stickers plastered on her car) had a jewel of a comment after getting her car stuck in a big snow drift last week. She said “This is from global warming. I don’t know how I will get to town if this warming doesn’t stop!)
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Cynicism, huh? People are evidently smarter than most of the enviro whackos (EW's) think. The EW's can "propose" shadowy and future technological things they want to do to "save the planet", but when the subject of a "tax" comes up, everybody knows exactly what that means.....thugs coming around and making you pay up...the money going into a dark pit run by Algore and his buddies.......screw that!!!
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