Fewer and fewer Republicans and Independents believe that ‘climate change’ is a credible threat; more and more Democrats do. ‘Global warming’, it is becoming increasingly clear, is a political issue and not a scientific one.
This shift is shown in the latest Gallup survey:
Here are some of the findings:
- Ninety-one percent of Democrats and 33% of Republicans say they worry a great deal or fair amount about global warming, but 67% of Republicans worry only a little or not at all.
- While 82% of Democrats think global warming has already begun to happen, only 34% of Republicans agree. Rather, 57% of Republicans think it will not happen in their lifetime (25%) or will “never happen” (32%).
- About seven in 10 Republicans (69%) think the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated in the news, 15% think it is generally correct and 15% say it is generally underestimated. Democrats, however, are much more likely to think the seriousness of global warming is underestimated (64%) or correct (32%), and just 4% say it is exaggerated.
- Eighty-six percent of Democrats versus 42% of Republicans think most scientists believe global warming is occurring. The percentage of Republicans who say most scientists believe this is down 11 percentage points since last year.
- Almost nine in 10 Democrats say increases in the Earth’s temperature over the last century are due to human activities more than natural changes in the environment. Just 35% of Republicans agree, while 63% attribute the temperature increases to natural environmental causes.
- Four in five Republicans do not think global warming will pose a serious threat to them in their lifetime; two-thirds of Democrats think it will.
In other words, if you voted for Donald Trump you probably share his skeptical position on global warming.
And if you didn’t vote for Donald Trump, you can barely sleep at night for the constant nagging worry that there’s a guy in the White House who denies the existence of a problem you just know is a major threat.
Since nothing has happened scientifically between 2017 and 2018 to strengthen the case for man-made global warming, the only logical conclusion of this increased divergence between voters’ views is that it’s all down to politics.
Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord will, depending on your political allegiance, either have hardened your skepticism or increased your sense of impending doom.
This is good news for skeptics. It confirms what we’ve been saying all along: global warming is really just another attempted leftist takeover by the watermelons – green on the outside, red on the inside.
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Belief is only relevant to politicians and winning fatuous debates where the facs are unknown and may or may ot be knowable. If you care about what will happen in a techological society knowledge and understanding are vital to delivering a claimed result. Plnes. boats, trains, bridges, etc. Climate change hypothetical and ultimately unprovable “computer science” has none of this fact or cetainty in its models. Indeed its predictions are statistoical forecasts which are unsupported by historical data and the latest science. Not as good as bookmaking. And, more stark, the prescription of renewable enrgy as a solution is a demonstrable multi $Billion pa fraud on the engineering delivery facts of net grid CO2 emissions per KWh. So “What is required is not the will to believe, but the will to understand, which is the excat opposite”. Bertrand Russell nailed that. The climate change = renewable energy deceit is the biggest structural malfeasance in the history of democracy. It can be demonstrated in 30 minutes of hard facts to any numerate audience. Yet politicians continue to promote it in their ego centric blind ignorance of reality. So much for a future enabled by technology, more likely destroyed by anti technological belief systems of the technically unknowing.
A song for the democrats. A MULE IS A ANIMAL WITH LONG FUNNY EARS,THE PERK UP AT ANYTHING HE HEARS,HIS BACK IS BRAWNY,BUT HIS MIND IS WEAK,HE’S JUST PLAIN STUPID WITH STUBORN STREAK
BRIAN R L CATT absolutely correct . A $trillion dollar con job that
could not stand up to 30 minutes of scientific rigor .
Jesus, the simple fact that AL Gore is at the front of this
circus parade says it all .
Now what would happen to California if the great bogie man
fossil fuel use stopped tomorrow ? The place would empty in
no time . Ok maybe a few tent dwellers hang around .
What has happened with climate change is called polarization. This is where there are more people at each extreme of an issue and fewer in the middle. Polarization exists on a number of issues and is bad for a political system.
Now for a conservative’s explanation of how polarization happens. Take the subject of climate change. The facts are clearly on the side of the skeptics so those who are more logical and better informed are more likely to take that position. The main stream news media and educational system are clearly campaigning for the alarmist view point so those who are less informed and don’t think for themselves will take adopt that view point.
Global Warming/Climate Change is just like Evolution its a unproven theory being taught as fact in many so called Science classes and as we learned back in the 1990’s the SAVE THE RAIN FORESTS campaign was a big time rip off