Posted on 07/31/2009 7:11:29 AM PDT by PROCON
A majority of peoples around the world want their governments to put action on climate change at the top of the political agenda, a new global public opinion poll suggests.
Unfortunately for Barack Obama though, who has put energy reform at the top of his White House to-do list, Americans are not necessarily among them.
Only 44% of Americans thought climate change should be a major preoccupation for the Obama administration, the survey co-ordinated by the University of Maryland's Programme on International Policy Attitudes said. The only other two countries unwilling to see their governments make climate change a top focus were Iraq and the Palestinian territories. In 15 other countries though there was strong support for governments to do more to deal with climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Ping!
Bullshiite
So, liberals feed us cr@p about Global Warming for years and then they use the resulting anxiety to prove something must be done?
I hate liberalism.
People who advocate robbing Peter to pay Paul can count on the enthusiastic support of Paul.
73% of the World’s population live in countries that will be exempt from CO2 restrictions, and will benefit greatly from the economic suicide of the industrialized West.
LOL! What starting with India and China??? LOL!
A “global poll”.......enough said.
Pathetic.
I have wasted one minute of my life reading and responding to this utterly worthless story.
Pure unadulterated BS. Every single poll I have ever seen, be it taken here or in the UK has shown Climate change or GW ranked 9 or 10th (20th in the linked NYT poll) on a list of ten most important issues to be addressed.
It all a matter of what and how the question is asked. Asking if we should be concerned about climate change and see if it can be dealt with will almost always draw a positive response. But if people are asked if they think we are in danger from GW OR if it is more important then the economy, national security etc. it invariably finishes at the bottom of the heap. It’s fashionable for people to say they are concerned about the environment even if they know zilch about anyhting being discussed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/science/earth/23warm.html
Boy would I love to see the methodology of this poll! How many people have access to a land line in the third world? LOL!
The poll methodology probably involved polling members of the UN at the UN Building in NY.
Bunk & hokum department...
...and if the polling schlubs were around a couple o hundred yarn back, they’d be saying that 73% of the worlds population believes the world is flat. Even if 100%, it still doesn’t make it true.
I just want to know if this was a poll of global “adults”, or global “households”. I’m guessing it was NOT a poll of global “voters”.
Suzanne Goldenberg is a liar.
A large proportion of the “world’s population” are Chinese and Indian peasants.
I doubt they give a crap about climate change mythology, instead being more concerned with such mundane things as food, shelter and clothing.
In this way, the most backward, illiterate barefoot peasant in rural India is 10 times more intelligent than the propagandist Suzanne Goldenberg.
Thanks, I'll do the hard work for you. :=)
73% say it’s too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
Yeah, so?
Certainly we should bow to their opinion, since the majority of the world and its population are so much better educated than the US. Also, they have better access to unfettered information as opposed to propaganda. We know that the vast majority of people are able to render sound opinions on scientific matters, also.
Moronic.
We all need to talk about the weather. Let us spend some time on the weather. It’s always a good ice breaker.
Right, I wonder what the numbers would be if it were winter in the northern hemisphere.
Total BS.
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