A Green Retreat (Environment no longer political priority - WE ALL AREN'T GONNA DIE!)

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/12/a-green-retreat.html ^ | 7/12/10 | Stefan Theil

[Libloather]

A Green Retreat
Why the environment is no longer a surefire political winner.
by Stefan Theil
July 12, 2010

Just three years ago the politics of global warming was enjoying its golden moment. The release in 2006 of Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, had riveted global audiences with its predictions of New York and Miami under 20 feet of water. Within 12 months, leading politicians with real power were on board. Germany’s Angela Merkel, dubbed the “climate chancellor” by her country’s press, arranged a Greenland photo op with a melting iceberg and promised to cut Europe’s emissions by 20 percent by 2020. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who called climate change a scourge equal to fascism, offered 60 percent by 2050. In December 2007, the world got its very first green leader. Harnessing the issue of climate change, Kevin Rudd became prime minister of Australia, ready to take on what he called “the biggest political, economic, and moral challenge of our times.” Now, almost everywhere, green politics has fallen from its lofty heights.

Following two of the harshest winters on record in the Northern Hemisphere—not to mention an epic economic crisis—voters no longer consider global warming a priority. Just 42 percent of Germans now worry about climate change, down from 62 percent in 2006. In Australia, only 53 percent still consider it a pressing issue, down from 75 percent in 2007. Americans rank climate change dead last of 21 problems that concern them most, according to a January Pew poll. Last month Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, blasting climate change as a “sideshow” to global economic issues, canceled the meeting of environment ministers that has preceded the G8 or G20 summit every year but one since 1994.

[Libloather]

The jokers who pimp this crap need to dry up and blow away.

[bray]

The watermelons have been cut open and exposed. The only ones pushing it are the Dictators in our Country.

Pray for America

[spokeshave]

...only one sunspot today...1087.

check out NASA image at

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/ ...

last time there were so few sunspots resulting in a mini ice age from 1350 to 1750

[bray]

You don’t think the sun had anything to do w/GW do you?

[SaraJohnson]

They are in the White Hut now. Watermelon globalists are going no where.

[Steely Tom]

That Newsweek article is an amazing mash of spin, cognitive dissonance, and rhetorical slight-of-hand. Boiled down to it's core, it comes to this: we almost got away with it, and we should have gotten away with it, but ordinary people woke up too soon, and as a result the dream of the New Soviet Environmental Man is going to have to go back into the basement till next time.

Left unsaid is the fact that Newsweek, along with pretty much every mainstream big-media outlet in the world, pushing the man-made global warming hoax with every ounce of strength they could muster for about the last 15 years, still blew it. Billions of dollars in publicity/propaganda for the left's environmental long march, including whole media empires wrecked and others hanging on to life by their fingernails (including Newsweek itself) and nothing to show for it.

Guess what the next media-made bubble will pop? Here's a hint:

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

nothing to show for it.

That's not entirely true, they did manage to ban plastic bags at my local Whole Foods.

[Chode]

Oh WOE is me... whys everybody always pickin on me???

listen... warming, cooling, it was 50/50. so i took a shot!!!

[Incorrigible]

Obviously it’s because Obama healed the planet!

[sergeantdave]

Eco-fascism was one of the pillars of Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. That fact is not broadcast widely because it would join America’s so-called “environmentalists” to Hitler’s hip. By 1939, 75% of Germany’s “nature” groups had joined the Nazi party. Hitler had a reichfuhrer running the Nazi’s nature policy out of the naturschutz in Berlin.

[junta]

Another cult that had a good run, but demographics were against it since its cult membership was about 99.99% weeny white libs in a world comprised of 99.99% not weeny white libs.