Posted on 11/10/2015 2:19:56 PM PST by HomerBohn
With the start of the UN's Climate Summit in Paris only three weeks away, global warming alarmists are in a panic, but opinion polls show most people are not that concerned about the issue.
Perhaps that is because more people are becoming aware that, despite the non-stop fright peddling by politicians and media commentators, there has been no measurable global warming for nearly 19 years.
As we warned would happen over a year ago (Desperate Dash of Global Warmingâ€), the global warming alarmists are desperately amping up their shrill warnings, in the hopes of creating support for the UN agenda..At a recent speech in San Diego, California Governor Jerry Brown called global warming an existential threat that demanded an all-out, national effort like the World War II Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb.
The multitude of UN agencies and spokesmen are in full alarm mode, of course. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) issued a report on November 6 warning that the proposed voluntary CO2 emission reduction targets offered by various nations do not go far enough. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said these commitments "are not sufficient to limit global temperature rise to the recommended level of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this century."
According to a report by the French news agency AFP on the UNEP two-degree claim, “This is a threshold beyond which scientists say the Earth will be racked by intolerable drought, superstorms, mass migration and a land-gobbling rise in sea levels.†However, as The New American has pointed out many times previously, claims that “the science is settled,†or that “scientific consensus overwhelmingly supports†the notion of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming (AGW) are total nonsense.
Apparently, most Americans are not buying the idea that the United Nations (as well as national, state, and local governments) must be empowered with additional taxing, regulating, and policing authority to deal with this alleged “crisis.†A recent poll by the Associated Press brings more bad news to the AGW alarm lobby. It seems to show that public concern over global warming has been declining even as the horror predictions of a warming world become more and more torrid. It may have something to do with that lesson many of us remember from nursery school about the boy who cried wolf.
In spite of (or maybe because of) the incessant onslaught of AGW stories, the alarm lobby has lost support in every category of respondent, since an identical poll was taken in July of this year. Those who categorized themselves as “extremely worried†over global warming fell from 9 percent to 8 percent; those in the “very worried†category dropped from 17 percent to 14 percent; and, those in the “moderately worried†group went from 37 percent of respondents down to 34 percent. At the same time, the percentage of those who are “not too worried†increased, from 20 percent to 22 percent, while those who are “not worried at all†increased from 15 percent to 17 percent.
The results of the Associated Press poll undoubtedly disappointed many of the reporters and editors at AP, which has consistently presented an AGW alarmist bias in its stories. However, it confirms what many previous polls have shown: that the truth about the global warming hoax is getting out, despite heavy-handed threats and intimidation by the alarmist mafia.
It is not only Americans who are resisting the AGW thought police. As The New American reported in August, even the UN’s own MY WORLD global survey of seven million individuals found climate change to be dead last among their concerns. What are the issues that matter most to most people? Here, according to the UN global poll, is the list of concerns in descending order:
A good education
Better healthcare
Better job opportunities
An honest and responsive government
Affordable and nutritious food
Protection against crime and violence
Access to clean water and sanitation
Support for people who can’t work
Better transport and roads
Reliable energy at home
Equality between men and women
Political freedoms
Freedom from discrimination and persecution
Protecting forests, rivers, and oceans
Phone and Internet Access
Action taken on climate change
Nevertheless, the United Nations, President Obama and other politicians who claim to speak for “the people†are determined to push through their plan to “save†the planet.
Obama should be hauled away to prison so he doesn't have any more time to completely sink this now pitiful nation. The Democrats want a one party government and they have almost reached that goal.
Deny it to them and try to save America.
Is anything being done at Free Republic to prevent the unwanted symbol insertion inserted into our posts?
Perhaps we need an ‘extra special assessment’ in order to hire an expert who can end this annoyance.
Nothing infuriates the ‘tolerant’ left than not agreeing with them.
Gore-Bull warming is a fraud.
The internet is the bane of the scare tactics of these “New Weathermen” all one has to do is search for the their climate predictions going back to the 70s to see that none have panned out.
More community organizers who can't make the Big Lie technique work.
Something went haywire after our last systems software upgrade and apparently fouled up the ms-smart character routine.
Hoping John solves the problem soon.
46 posted on 11/5/2015, 2:26:53 PM by Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3356831/posts?page=46#46
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Not much we can do about stopping the sun from being the sun.
The sky is falling the sky is falling!
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of the screams that ensue when those plush government research grants are threatened.
Here are some of the other items of concern that explicitly stand in direct opposition to the one that came in last, “Action taken on climate change”, the others are implicitly in opposition — and of course, climate change is natural, and not one [bleep] thing can be done about it:
Better job opportunities
An honest and responsive government
Affordable and nutritious food
Access to clean water and sanitation
Better transport and roads
Reliable energy at home
Freedom from discrimination and persecution
Phone and Internet Access
Algore, hoisted upon his own Internet petard.
What is the over/under on bottles of champagne to be consumed, limos full of hookers delivered and kilos of coke/heroin to die for in Gay Pareee’ odds palace about now?
Probably huugh!!!
Party On!!!
The new libtard government of Canada even created a new cabinet post of Climate Change & will be reversing the previous Conservative government position.
I’m still trying to find a climate that has actually changed.
And which city on a coast is underwater like they say would happen?
I find it particularly annoying on the smithsonian channel. They seem to juxtapose the issue into aerial tours of every state.
The weather channel could be mistaken for the comedy channel when they name everything but dust storms with heroic mythological names like winter storm Atlas. They also provide a great foundation for a drinking game. Count how many times they use the word "unprecidented" or interview a 20 something who says "I have never seen weather like this before" in their breathless coverage of a rain storm.
Our representative to the summit can cool it down by flapping his ears!
anyone talking about this:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
Hot air from politicians’ mouths has to be equivalent to all the world’s SUV’s combined, if not more so. Let’s put a cork in them for the next 10 years and test this hypothesis, shall we? Research grants all around.
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