News now comes to us in the form of a new Gallup
poll, one that covers specifically the topic of Americans’ concern over
environmental issues such as water and air pollution and extinction of species,
indicates such concern would seem to be down from as recently as last
year. The data also shows that of all
green issues, Americans worry the least about global warming, which more
recently has become more generically referred to as ‘climate change’ or the
even more innocuous sounding, ‘climate disruption. Now I’m quite sure that such news will have
little, if any, impact on the amount of energy that Barry & Co. will spend
trying to make this issue seem more important that it is since we all
understand the motivation behind it.
As part of its annual Environmental survey, which
Gallup has done for more than two decades, the surveyors, back on March 5-8,
asked, “I’m going to read you a list of environmental problems. As I read each
one, please tell me if you personally worry about this problem a great deal, a fair
amount, only a little, or not at all.” The
results showed that when it came to “pollution of drinking water,” 60% worried
about it a “great deal” in 2014 but only 55% worried about it a “great deal” in
2015. For “global warming or climate
change,” some 34% worried about it a “great deal” in 2014 but that went down to
32% in 2015. The full results from
Gallup are presented in the screenshot at the top of this post.
And it was in commenting about the results of the
poll that Gallup said, “Americans' concern about several major environmental
threats has eased after increasing last year. As in the past, Americans express
the greatest worry about pollution of drinking water, and the least about global
warming or climate change.” The Gallup folks
went on to say, “[T]he nature of the environmental agenda may indirectly be
influencing Americans' concern.” And they
added, “The primary focus of the environmental movement has shifted toward
long-term threats like global warming -- issues about which Americans tend to
worry less than about more immediate threats like pollution.” Personally, I don’t worry about any of this
crap!
“Importantly,” said the surveyors, “even as global
warming has received greater attention as an environmental problem from
politicians and the media in recent years, Americans' worry about it is no
higher now than when Gallup first asked about it in 1989.” And then, when Gallup broke the data down by
political party, Republican versus Democrat, it found that only 13% of
Republicans worry a “great deal” about global warming in 2015 while 52% of
Democrats worry a “great deal” about the issue.
And since it’s pretty much common knowledge that Democrats are not really
particularly bright, it should come as no surprise that Democrats worry far
more than do Republicans about this nonexistent issue.
More and more Americans are coming to realize just
how much of a scam all of this ‘climate change’ nonsense really is. They’re paying more attention, and rightfully
so, to what it is that’s going on around them and less to political rhetoric
that is really so patently false. They
see that we have not had a major hurricane hitting this country in roughly 5
years, they hear how it was that last year represented a 60 year low in tornado
activity and how many areas of the country have yet to wrap up what remains the
coldest winter that many of them have experienced in decades. And yet at the same time they’re expected to believe
that the planet is getting warmer and that it’s all because of them. And they’re responding with a collective, “BULLSHIT!”
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