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The New 'Consensus': 97 Percent Of Americans Aren't Worried About Global Warming
The DC Caller ^ | November 25, 2015 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 11/26/2015 2:12:29 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network

While 97 percent of scientists may agree mankind is driving global warming, 97 percent of Americans don’t seem to care about the issue when stacked up against other concerns such as terrorism or the economy, according to a recent Fox News poll.

A November Fox News poll of more than 1,000 registered voters found that only 3 percent listed "climate change" as the most important issue facing the country today, down from 5 percent in August. Americans were much more worried about terrorism, the economy and immigration than global warming.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/25/the-new-consensus-97-of-americans-arent-worried-about-global-warming/#ixzz3saiGNtSs

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; drudge; elections; globalwarming; polls
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Just saw this on the Drudgereport, and decided to post it here.
1 posted on 11/26/2015 2:12:29 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/25/the-new-consensus-97-of-americans-arent-worried-about-global-warming/


2 posted on 11/26/2015 2:12:40 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“While 97 percent of scientists may agree mankind is driving global warming...”

73% of statistics are made up on the spot.


3 posted on 11/26/2015 2:30:55 AM PST by Peet (I would say "to hell with the media," but hell doesn't want 'em either)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

97%.......hheh, heh, heh....


4 posted on 11/26/2015 2:31:13 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Peet

Actually, 92.7% of all statistics are made up 52% of the time.


5 posted on 11/26/2015 2:45:52 AM PST by jimmyray
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To: jimmyray

Isn’t it fun watching the whole progressive house come tumbling down?

Building Implosion ‘A New Beginning For Neighborhood’
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/08/29/building-implosion-a-new-beginning-for-neighborhood/


6 posted on 11/26/2015 2:58:20 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

100% of global warming is bullshit.


7 posted on 11/26/2015 2:59:17 AM PST by glock rocks (I don't always talk to liberals, but when I do, I order the large fries.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

If global warming was real, Algore would be flying coach and living in a modest home, in order to limit his carbon footprint and to set a good example.


8 posted on 11/26/2015 2:59:44 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Whenever they say Global Warming -— translate that to population manipulation and control.


9 posted on 11/26/2015 3:02:21 AM PST by Fhios (Anti-depressents aren't a good replacement for a good economy and national pride.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

LOL. I love it.


10 posted on 11/26/2015 3:07:46 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Peet

And the other 27% of their statistics are either dubious or misstated.


11 posted on 11/26/2015 3:18:29 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The headline does not actually match the poll. The poll said only 3% think it is the MOST important thing. It doesn’t show that 97% aren’t worried about it.


12 posted on 11/26/2015 3:42:38 AM PST by pas
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Yeah I get that.

But it seems newsworthy nonetheless. :D

It was the title.


13 posted on 11/26/2015 3:43:47 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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“While 97 percent of scientists may agree mankind is driving global warming”

Except this is a bogus number long ago debunked.

2. How do we know the 97% agree?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/2/

To elaborate, how was that proven?

Almost no one who refers to the 97% has any idea, but the basic way it works is that a researcher reviews a lot of scholarly papers and classifies them by how many agree with a certain position.

Unfortunately, in the case of 97% of climate scientists agreeing that human beings are the main cause of warming, the researchers have engaged in egregious misconduct.

One of the main papers behind the 97 percent claim is authored by John Cook, who runs the popular website SkepticalScience.com, a virtual encyclopedia of arguments trying to defend predictions of catastrophic climate change from all challenges.

Here is Cook’s summary of his paper: “Cook et al. (2013) found that over 97 percent [of papers he surveyed] endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.”

This is a fairly clear statement—97 percent of the papers surveyed endorsed the view that man-made greenhouse gases were the main cause—main in common usage meaning more than 50 percent.
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But even a quick scan of the paper reveals that this is not the case. Cook is able to demonstrate only that a relative handful endorse “the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.” Cook calls this “explicit endorsement with quantification” (quantification meaning 50 percent or more). The problem is, only a small percentage of the papers fall into this category; Cook does not say what percentage, but when the study was publicly challenged by economist David Friedman, one observer calculated that only 1.6 percent explicitly stated that man-made greenhouse gases caused at least 50 percent of global warming.

Where did most of the 97 percent come from, then? Cook had created a category called “explicit endorsement without quantification”—that is, papers in which the author, by Cook’s admission, did not say whether 1 percent or 50 percent or 100 percent of the warming was caused by man. He had also created a category called “implicit endorsement,” for papers that imply (but don’t say) that there is some man-made global warming and don’t quantify it. In other words, he created two categories that he labeled as endorsing a view that they most certainly didn’t.

The 97 percent claim is a deliberate misrepresentation designed to intimidate the public—and numerous scientists whose papers were classified by Cook protested:

“Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral.”

—Dr. Richard Tol

“That is not an accurate representation of my paper . . .”


14 posted on 11/26/2015 4:07:09 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: Paladin2

I’d say 100% of Americans don’t lied being lied to.


15 posted on 11/26/2015 4:32:29 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Peet

Well, according to a pie chart I saw once in USA Today, it seems that 2/3rds of us make up 75% of the population!


16 posted on 11/26/2015 4:46:13 AM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Ding ding, we have a winner.


17 posted on 11/26/2015 5:00:30 AM PST by wita
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Americans were much more worried about terrorism, the economy and immigration than global warming.

When Obama declares that global warming is the greatest threat, he is mocking us.

18 posted on 11/26/2015 6:05:56 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: Peet
73% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Todd Snider: Statitician's Blues

19 posted on 11/26/2015 6:10:17 AM PST by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

100% of Obozo voters love being lied to.


20 posted on 11/26/2015 6:30:22 AM PST by Newtoidaho (Sprinkles are for winners.)
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