Despite all the spin, the non-stop propaganda, a dreadful drought and the two “record-hot” years, most Australians still don’t agree with the IPCC.
This is exactly the same as it was in 2015 when the CSIRO last did a serious climate poll.
The IPSOS Climate Change Report
So we sit, a nation of majority skeptics, with no major party to vote for and hardly any TV media, academics or politicians making the case that the IPCC might be wrong and the Paris agreement might be a waste of time.
No one is allowed to discuss it and national leaders stay cowed in silence for fear of being called petty names.
There is little to crystallize or focus this sentiment that doubts the experts, yet it exists, even in surveys designed by a team who appear to be doing their best to find and amplify the “believer” vote.
The IPSOS survey suffers from the usual flaws: loaded questions, ambiguous terms, and one-sided analysis.
Respondents are asked magical pie questions about solving problems as if they only need to wave a fairy wand and it shall be solved.
They’re not asked how many dollars they personally want to spend solving it. It’s as if life is not about the costs and benefits or trade-offs.
It’s as deep as saying if you could save the world for free, would you?
What really matters is what would you give up in order to change this?
This new IPSOS climate change poll of 1000 people was conducted in December and finally published, coincidentally, on Sunday before the Labor Party launched its climate policy.
IPSOS is telling Australians on the verge of an election that this is some kind of new record momentum.
Matt Wade, at The Sydney Morning Herald, repeats the IPSOS press release, “this was a record share of Australians that say humans cause climate change”.
It’s the usual half-truth — the whole truth is that the CSIRO did multiple surveys involving 17,000 people from 2010 – 2014 and nothing has changed.
Isn’t that the kind of research that both IPSOS and investigative reporters might want to mention?
Here are the CSIRO results from 2015. Spot the difference?
The gap between what the experts say and the public believes exists all around the world.
In the US, the AAAS found that while 87% of experts say climate change is mostly “man-made”, only 50% of Americans thought the experts were right. (And that was before Trump arrived — it’d be bound to be less now.)
Only 86% of Australians “believe” man-kind has any effect at all
To get a high number, IPSOS and the parrot-media bundle all the people who believe man-made climate change has any possible effect at all.
They report that “86% of Australians believe humans contribute to climate change in some way”.
That’s a category that would include most die-hard skeptics (like me) — so it’s about as meaningless a statement as anyone can make. The only thing it tells us is that the IPSOS investigators badly want to spin this.
If one-third of Australians think the situation is part-man/part-nature, that’s a lot of people who already think the news is hyped and who won’t want to spend a lot of money.
Where do Australians rank climate change – Last
When voters can rank climate change it’s the last thing they care about. Year after year, “the environment” is dead last on pretty much every survey, everywhere.
How many times do people need to tell politicians that being a skeptic isn’t the vote killer that some commentators would like you to believe?
Even people who believe in man-made global warming just aren’t as concerned about the environment as they are about jobs, corruption, and the economy.
What’s the biggest issue at the moment: Cost of Living.
Note that this graph was done in colors that were so indecipherably similar it was almost like IPSOS didn’t want us to see the data (see that original).
So I changed the colors.
IPSOS’s headline about that bottom green line is “Environment returns as an important issue”. Well, No. It doesn’t.
I’ll have more to say about this survey…
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FYI – the Sydney Morning Herald gets their ‘international’ news from the Huffington Post. Need I say more…..
Why does anyone need to believe anything when we have the facts in records that go back I million years with reasonable accuracy? Good proxy records began a lot further back that less than one short portion of interglacial climate variation, when we got clever enough to measure it directly. Propagandists and ignorant parroting media simply lie about the real range of reality to frighten people with insignificant variations, relative to even the short interglacial norms that we are apparently leaving for the neo glacial, considered on the natural change trend. The last cold swing was out of interglacial range and into ice age territory c.1650. Warming? Not Really, viewed on the facts of the time scales of global change rather than the beliefs. I marked up the key one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/euqcihaddyg5rw8/Interglacial%20GISP2%20Temps%20Since10700%20BP%20w%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC%20Markup%20BRLC.jpg?dl=0
Then I wrote a 350 word letter decribing it: DIRECTIONS: To be taken when belief overcomes reality. Read when necessary. Validate regularly.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vvyej6raim9hjic/Facts%20About%20Climate%20History.pdf?dl=0
Way to many years of chicken little the earth has a fever and now bar tender are claiming the earth has 12 years left ….unless we return to being cave dwellers .
Don’t you love politicians that still say ..We have to “TACKLE” climate change. What kind of tackle would that be ?
Pretending to set the earth’s temperature established by Hollywood and other California con-men to further line their pockets while meeting globalist political objectives .
Australians have seen enough of the con game and their priorities confirm it . Set the worlds temperature by adjusting the amount of plant food .
How quaint .
Surveys are research. If you want the truth , ask clearly worded questions. If you’re angling for a predetermined result, do what IPSOS et al do to please their clients.
Those conducting surveys have many tricks to get the results that they want. Yet, these tricks were not enough to show that the majority of Australians are concerned about climate change. In all surveys the climate change activists all assume that all of those who believe climate change is happening also supports extreme measures such as the climate change part of the Green New Deal. The article pointed out that isn’t true.
Of those who believe that climate change is happening, a certain percentage believe it is natural, which as the article points out includes skeptics. Of the remainder, some believe that climate change is good. Others believe that any harm that might be happening is and will remain minor. Of those who believe anthropological climate change is very harmful, some believe that the cure, such as a goal of net zero emissions by 2030, is worse than the disease. The people believe we should put our effort into adaptation. Rather than the endorsement of “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” that the liberals think the surveys show for those who believe that cliante change is happening, the actual number is very small.
So it looks like the Aussies are becoming skeptics of this whole Global Warming/Climate Change Hoax especialy when they read that Global Warming/Climate Change results in burnt toast