The corporate media this week are trumpeting a biased push poll from Saint Leo University claiming a majority of Floridians are worried about climate change.
In reality, a vast majority of Floridians are somewhere between “not at all concerned” about climate change and merely “somewhat concerned” about climate change. Even Saint Leo’s poll finds only 39 percent of Floridians are “very concerned.”
For context, national polls continue to show an even split between people who are “not very concerned” or “not at all concerned” about climate change versus people who are “very concerned” about climate change.
For example, a Nov. 1 New York Times poll found 39 percent of voters nationally are either “not very” or “not at all” concerned about climate change, versus just 37 percent who are “very” concerned.
The rest were just “somewhat concerned.” Similarly, a December 2020 Rasmussen poll – commissioned by The Heartland Institute – found similar results.
The Saint Leo poll did not list how it weighted Republican and Democrat poll respondents in Florida.
Even if we assume for the sake of argument that the push-poll was properly weighted, Saint Leo reports merely 39 percent of Floridians are “very concerned.”
Despite this, the Saint Leo press release announcing its poll results is titled, “Florida Residents Continue to Worry About Climate Change and Various Effects, Saint Leo University Survey Shows.” Well, I guess so, if you mean “Some” Florida residents or “A minority of” Florida residents continue to worry.
Spurred on by Saint Leo’s sensationalism, several Florida media outlets even more inaccurately reported the poll results:
The Islander News (Key Biscayne) published an article titled, “Floridians are more worried about climate change than most Americans, a new study finds.” – Well, yeah, by a measly 2 percentage points, which is well within the margins of error.
The Florida Phoenix similarly published an article titled, “New Survey: Floridians are more worried about climate change than most Americans.”
In reality, most Floridians, like most Americans, are not very concerned about climate change. Neither are Floridians more concerned about climate change than most Americans.
Push polls and biased media stories claiming anything different are poorly disguised attempts to bully or induce Florida policymakers to cater to the minority Climate Left out of raw political fear. Florida policymakers should trust climate realism and their own political instincts, instead.
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The M.S. Media are nothing more the the Dummy for the Globalists and the left most of their polls are faked in the first place
If the REAL facts were ever told to the public, there would be NO Floridians worried about climate change. EVERY time government declares a topic a threat, it is THE BIGGEST power grab at the time. GOVERNMENT, Especially the US government, LIES, LIES LIES!The biggest threat to humanity IS the government.
I live in Florida. I moved here 5 years ago to escape global cooling, because there’s too much snow and ice up north. I love global warming. Problem is, it’s still too chilly down here in Florida.
I may.not be a Floridian, but I’m worried about climate change…
I’m worried we might deindustrialise just in time for a deep new ice age. Even if the latter doesn’t happen, the former will if we keep on this crazy anti-carbon crusade.
Fake Polls CNN/Time and their fake polls they take you cant ever trust a thing they tell us since most all we get from the M.S. Media are total Lies and half truths