Oh my: Belief in man-made global warming now under 50%
posted at 6:49 pm on December 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
The good news for warmists: While only 45 percent believe in anthropogenic global warming, more than two-thirds believe that global warming is occurring. Moreover, these numbers are much rosier than the ones Pew got when they polled this question in October, with just 57 percent expressing a belief in GW at the time and a measly 36 percent subscribing to AGW. Even so, with all the buzz over Copenhagen and the effort expended to laugh at Climategate, it’s mind-boggling that the trend is towards skepticism, not belief. How much more hype do they need to manufacture to convince people? Are the statues not scary enough? Is Al Gore’s poetry not poignant enough? What’ll it take?
I know what it’ll take. It’ll take a guy no one trusts in the first place to blithely insist at today’s White House presser (for the second time this week) that “I think everybody is clear on the science.” Case closed. Bring on cap and trade! Click the image to watch.
Update: Ah, missed this in the CNN item at first glance:
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Monday, indicates that two-thirds of all Americans believe global warming is a proven fact.
That’s down eight points since June of 2008, with views among Democrats holding steady while Republicans’ belief in global warming dropping 11 points…The poll indicates the number who say the U.S. should reduce emissions even if other countries do not follow suit has also dropped, from 66 percent in 2007 to 58 percent today.
“That drop is due to roughly equal changes among Republicans and Democrats, suggesting that economic conditions, rather than political factors, may be at play,” noted Holland.
Just another partisan issue, driven by a reaction to the president? If so, then ironically greens probably would have been better off with McCain in the White House: Republican opposition on this issue wouldn’t have been as dug in.
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0% in this household.
KSgop on December 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Beltway Boob… always humor in some aspect coming from this ditz.
Gore-Ku:
Al Gore is his name
Climate is his game of choice
Now bow to his fame
upinak on December 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
That “global warming” even exists at all.
KSgop on December 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
An inconvenient truth.
carbon_footprint on December 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Expect this to continue. It’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg — in a couple of months, I’m guessing it’ll be below 40 percent and falling. Right along with Obama’s approval rating!
John the Libertarian on December 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
I don’t see the liberals holding their breath yet so it can’t be true. I ain’t holding my breath either because I don’t believe it.
fourdeucer on December 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
People are starting to figure out that they are being lied to and manipulated…what’s the give away though? The screaming hypocrasy of all those limos and private jets at Hopenhagan…the CRU e-mails…or the fact that it’s getting colder every year?
AUINSC on December 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Who needs Cap & Trade when we’ve got the EPA declaring CO2 a pollutant?!
Save the world; hold your breath.
IrishEi on December 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
I hate Obama for foisting this idiot no-nothing on us.
Among other things.
anniekc on December 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Thanks for the clip and all, but I simply cannot stomach watching this smug, condescending, and arrogant buffoon’s weaselie puss anymore…
Fuzzlenutter on December 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
How soon before Gibsy bolts for a gig on MSNBC?
OkieDoc on December 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
So it is written, so it shall be done.
tru2tx on December 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Note to Allah: Polls are not news
The revolution in Iran roars back to life
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Ed Graef on December 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Doubling down on stupid…..
ted c on December 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM
There once was a dummy named Gibbs
Who covered the backsides of Libs.
He proclaimed the climate had changed,
And the polar caps rearranged,
Even though it was nothing but fibs.
kingsjester on December 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Truth 1, Chicken Littles 0
JammieWearingFool on December 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Does it matter what we believe? They are steaming full as if it’s a fact no matter what many of us (most?) think.
WitchDoctor on December 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Thee more months an Roberts Gibbs will respond to the same question with his eyes closed, clicking his heels together and chanting, “I want to believe. I want to believe”.
myrenovations on December 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Obama didn’t bow, either.
Jim Treacher on December 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM
I don’t believe these polls and their conclusions. Show me the raw data.
macncheez on December 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM
If McCain had won, they’d have passed some disastrous “bipartisan” versions of healthcare destruction AND Kneecap & Trade by now. And, he’d have signed them both – just to show how f***ing bipartisan (in a reach across/reach-around kind of way) he is.
Bruce in NH on December 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM
I am so over global warming. I solved it about 3 weeks ago. Can we have the next crisis please, this one is worn out.
milwife88 on December 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM
the polls cheer me: this one indicates that people are waking up & perhaps spreading the news about Climategate. Obama’s sinking #s, the lack of support on Obamacare & the low generic score for Dems–all of these polls make me feel better.
but the Dems & Obama don’t give a rat’s *ss about the polls. they are moving forward without our consent.
because they were voted in so they don’t need our permission.
kelley in virginia on December 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Sooo, losing to win? I kid I Kid.
Weight of Glory on December 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Global warming here
Settled science tells me so
But butt is so cold
Yoop on December 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM
All the idiots in DC must go, one way or another.
tim c on December 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Is it just me, or can the global warming freaks tell you everything under the sun that causes global warming but never mention the sun itself. I may just be a stupid farmer but a 10,000 degree burning ball of fire in the sky cannot be dismissed can it?
wheelgun on December 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Perhaps few enough believe the greenhouse gasses will go away.
dedalus on December 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
It SNOWED in Houston last week, a lot!
BobH on December 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
I saw Juan Williams on Fox this evening and he was going on about how the science is settled and we have to do something and the EPA ruling is a good thing…blah blah blah.
I thought, you jump right in there Juan, walk wherever you go, wash your clothes on a rock at the river, heat your home with dung…just leave me the hell alone.
Terrye on December 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
We’ve fixed the economy and ‘created or saved’ one trillion jobs…
Seven Percent Solution on December 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Again I say – where is the outrage? There should be million-person demonstrations in every major city on Earth. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6744787/Its-a-return-to-the-Star-Chamber-as-Europe-finally-tramples-Magna-Carta-into-the-dust.html\
“The Charter of Fundamental Rights – legally binding in the UK as of Tuesday, when Lisbon came into force – asserts that the EU has the authority to circumscribe all rights and freedoms.The text was modified after I threw a tantrum in the Daily Telegraph during the drafting process, comparing it to the “general interest” clause used by Fascist regimes to crush dissent in the 1930s.Article 52 now reads: “Subject to the principle of proportionality, limitations may be made only if they are necessary and genuinely meet objectives of general interest recognized by the Union.”Don’t be misled by this inverted wording. What it states is that the EU may indeed limit rights in the “general interest”. In other words, our Magna Carta has been superceded.”
KentAllard on December 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
15 degrees here, we must act quickly.
Or is it too late?
artist on December 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM
To paraphrase the Bard, “First, let’s kill all the windbags”.
OkieDoc on December 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Can’t wait for the EPA to decide who can feast off Gaia and who will be sacrificed.
fourdeucer on December 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Well, this explains a lot.
One anagram for “warming” is “warm gin”!
No yuppie lib is going to allow their martini to be hot.
Yoop on December 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
I think I found the reason why Obama bows so much. Check out this shot of Michelle. Is that a pencil in your pocket or?????
http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?iid=7249357&term=michelle obama&scomp=pis&blog=michelleobamawatch.com&network=Other&post=%2f2009%2f12%2fphotos-video-first-family-lights-national-christmas-tree%2f&uid=0
milwife88 on December 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Get a load of this BS. Some shrink making an awfully weak argument for AGW advocacy. His plan–getting his fellow psychs to “go green” and “do more.” Wow, what professionally intriguing and compelling arguments made by a *cough* physician…
ted c on December 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
ted c on December 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
They want a piece of the pie.
We’re talking BIG $$$.
artist on December 7, 2009 at 7:53 PM
That’s because they did not assert their GOD given rights and bowed to a monarchy to grant them freedom, which as we’ve witnessed, is being withdrawn. Hum, wonder what will fill That vacuum?
OkieDoc on December 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Are they appealing to their base?
OkieDoc on December 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM
No, but they are great for a back and forth discussion topic.
thomasaur on December 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM
28 degrees here and icing up fast.
Hey Al, you want to spring for some our stolen money and help pay my heating bill? Didn’t think so you lieing Democrat Commie POS……
I hope you freeze to death somewhere, you scum…
Old Texan on December 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM
We haven’t even settled the science on what could create a Gibbs.
Chuck Schick on December 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM
I will so my part and smoke food this week in honor of Hopenhagan.
rob verdi on December 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM
mankind is not powerful enough to overcome nature. They have been trying to ‘make rain’ and ‘stop hurricanes’ for decades. They build seawalls to hold back tides.
Ask Katrina victims and victims of the tsunamis. The Earth will kill us off long before we kill the Earth off. To assume otherwise is ridiculously arrogant and overstates mankind’s relationship with the Earth.
The Earth takes care of mankind, not the other way around.
ThackerAgency on December 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM
And these idiots in D.C. think that Palin isn’t qualified and lacks judgement?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHAAAAAAHAHAHAHA.
Barry Marshall Davis, worst president in American History…evah!!
PappyD61 on December 7, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Warning about “climate change” is like warning that the tides come in and out, that the sun goes up and down, that summer is warmer than winter. The only thing constant in all our lives, every aspect of it, is change. Period.
That man is responsible for that change is as arrogant as insisting the sun revolves around the earth, and the king controls it, as “scientists” once tried to tell the people.
It’s funny that they call us flat-earthers, because that used to be accepted and undisputable “science” and to say otherwise was heresy. Why? It made the people who controlled the trade routes across land to China/India/Etc. rich, because the paths across the sea were too hard to regulate. Always follow the money. The last thing the rich people that guided people to their silk and other wealth wanted was for somebody to discover how to go the other way around . . .
PastorJon on December 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Jeeze…. questioning AGW is like raining on their prom.
All these creeps are descending on Copenhagen for their big do. Even though I’m freezing my a$$ off in the deep South, I’d hate to spoil their party – not.
The Pillsbury Dough Boy is fast approaching his expiration date. One would think that someone would pull him off the shelf except that this juvenile administration has no idea how embarrassing they are.
The bottom line is that the Dems have done nothing that matters to ordinary people, you know, the ones who work and pay taxes – absolutely nothing. They party-on (literally), pursuing an agenda that threatens the very people who make this country functional.
We’ll see what Barfy brings back from Copenhagen this time. Bloomberg news was buzzing about it today. Hopefully it will be simply another expensive trip at taxpayer expense with zero results.
Cody1991 on December 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Take out the “etteled” part, replace it with “hit“, and you will get the general consensus as to how the rest of us feel about the science, Gibblets!
pilamaye on December 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
My daughter called from the ‘burbs of Sacramento this am to report snow. We’re finally getting a decent amount up here in the Central Rockies, 12-16 inches by tomorrow pm.
thomasaur on December 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
The Know-Nothing Ass Licker speaks again.
mr1216 on December 7, 2009 at 8:03 PM
The presence or absence of the sun causes 20+ degree changes every day, with a typical day being 20 degrees warmer than a typical night, at least in my experience in watching temperatures around the globe over the years. And then there are the seasonal changes, which can range over 100 degrees in Chicago (-10 degrees at its coldest and 90 degrees near the warmest). Minor changes on the sun should easily explain the much, much smaller differences in temperature that the warming crowd says will happen.
The whole situation is definitely one of those times when you have to ask cui bono?. Seems like all the people who’d benefit from cap and trade and the entire regulatory agenda of the environmentalists are a bunch of hacks, so even if it’s true, which I doubt, I’d rather not see them benefit just on principle.
venividivici on December 7, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Wait! Texans have heaters???? Whoa.
Kidding aside, 28 is not good. Open your cabinets so your pipes don’t freeze.
Take it from this old Alaskan ;)
upinak on December 7, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Obama, Gore meet on climate change
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has met with former Vice President Al Gore at the White House as the president prepares for his appearance at a major international climate summit in Copenhagen.
Obama met with Gore in a closed meeting with no press coverage.
The former vice president won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work toward combatting climate change.
Obama is also meeting on Wednesday with environmental leaders and U.S. business leaders to discuss climate change.
The president will be at the summit of world leaders on Dec. 18
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/shared-gen/ap/Finance_General/Climate_Obama.html
Serious coordination going on, serious a$$ covering?
Cody1991 on December 7, 2009 at 8:04 PM
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”
Yoop on December 7, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I see all these threads on this topic…I can’t believe we’re still talking about this….
Should I not plan next years garden…not enough co2…
Request to all …breath deep and heavy…my tomatoes thank you…;)
jerrytbg on December 7, 2009 at 8:09 PM
The old State Media meme was scientists versus old companies.
The CRU put a face to the “scientists” though.
Now the debate is the skeptics, who have been at partly vindicated, versus individual government hacks.
The public knows what government hacks are like and the notion that AGW is partly exaggeration and partly fraud doesn’t seem so unbelievable any more.
18-1 on December 7, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I’ll do my part. I will feed my cows some extra protein, the flatulence will be toxic.
wheelgun on December 7, 2009 at 8:12 PM
A bowl of chili.
Aviator on December 7, 2009 at 8:14 PM
That question is very poorly phrased. It all depends on the time interval. Do I believe in warming since the last ice age thousands of years ago? Yes. Do I believe in warming since the little ice age hundreds of years ago? Yes. Do I believe in warming since Tambura two hundred years ago? Yes. Do I believe in warming since Gore started making big bucks on his scam nearly a decade ago? NO!
burt on December 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I am sure that they can expect our liberty loving President to speak out very soon and very forcefully on their behalf.
Any time now … 9, 8, 7 …….
Wel maybe not quite that fast so let rerestart the countdown.
999,999, 999,998, 999,997 … … …
MB4 on December 7, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Gore-Ku Too
They hid the decline
‘Twas an inconvenient lie
Good thing it was leaked
ya2daup on December 7, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Take it from this old Alaskan ;)
upinak on December 7, 2009 at 8:03 PM
The funniest part…. I was driving from the docks of Louisiana from work, and all along the way those people are freezing their cajones off. I had a meeting in Houston the morning it snowed. There was a bunch of, I would guess illegals, standing outside a Home Depot shivering like a dig trying to poop a peach seed. Too dang funny.
Old Texan on December 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM
oops dog trying to poop a peach seed.
Old Texan on December 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Global warming is regarded by the sheeple as true, by those who can think for themselves as false and by the power mad and money grubbers as … … useful.
- Seneca the Younger paraphrased
What would be the effect of all this Global Warming fraud and coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. Al Gore and the Global Warming fraudsters converted simple changes in the weather into an engine for enslaving mankind to filch wealth and power to themselves. They, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Scientists.
- Thomas Jefferson paraphrased
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
- Ferdinand Magellan
If Ferdinand Magellan was alive today he would probably say “The Church of Global Warming says the earth is dangerously heating up, but I know that it is not, for I have seen the snow and ice and have felt their bitter cold, and I have more faith in snow and ice than in the Church of Global Warming, and it’s High Priests.”
MB4 on December 7, 2009 at 8:25 PM
If I were a cynic and misanthrope I would picture their plan is to off themselves
ya2daup on December 7, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I’m more afraid of Zombies than I am of climate change.
KillerKane on December 7, 2009 at 8:30 PM
gotta love conspiracy theories…
Here’s one for you to ponder on and or to pontificate about.
Hot Air is a demonic website possessed by a demon that is watching you every time you come to this site!!!
Proof: Check out the main page picture at the top with the home, vault, green room, and about links in the forefront. See the red demonic eyes glowing beneath the v in vault and the ab in about? Accompanied by the wispy smoke of burning sulfur also. And why does the links turn red anyway with that evil looking font. I bet the font is called “hell”vatican. I’d assume to symbolize the blood of the innocents drawn by conservative owned kittens.
Global Warming v The Hot Air demon
It’s on!
disillusioned on December 7, 2009 at 8:32 PM
That’s not such good news for the warm-mongers. It’s undeniable that climate changes; what the warm-mongers want is to tie it into a lefty anti-consumerism anti-Big Business political agenda using the AGW religion.
ddrintn on December 7, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Dear Gaia….I do believe the neighbor has his firepit going.
Enjoy it while you can bub, I’m calling the sheriff.
Bishop on December 7, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Seek help whack job
CWforFreedom on December 7, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Under 50% !!
OMG….Get every regulation lined up and those “emergency” bills on my desk before any more peeps find out about this!!
/sarc off
GoldenEagle4444 on December 7, 2009 at 8:45 PM
When nobody else is around, my television tells me I should strangle you with your thong.
Just sayin’…
Doorgunner on December 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM
They pass this jackassery and all the GOP needs to do is to run on repealing the entire Obama agenda.
Health care reform – in the crapper.
Cap and Trade – dead.
Throw out Obama and his corrupt, incompetent cadre and wash our hands of the entire worthless mess by 2012.
NoDonkey on December 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Isn’t there a saying that great minds think alike? I’d assume, as a conservative, you’d say that there would be more evidence for the Hot Air Demon then there is for Global Warming.
disillusioned on December 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM
TH…TH…TH…THA…THAT’S ALL FOLKS!
darclon on December 7, 2009 at 8:49 PM
In case anyone hasn’t heard,
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increased levels of CO2 are the result of global temperature increases, not the cause.
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esblowfeld on December 7, 2009 at 8:50 PM
television rots the brain. except for sporting events, of course.
disillusioned on December 7, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Ok so there is no such thing as global warming; but this thread proves that a Poll Shift has occurred.
A Pole Shift can bring widespread disaster to a neighborhood near you and can cause problems for some migrating birds who would have to fly North for the Winter.
Geochelone on December 7, 2009 at 8:54 PM
disillusioned….gotcha…you would be right.
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wait til the EPA crap hits the economy. I am sure it will wait to do its real damage for about 3+ more years(after Obama’s next campaign. This is a job killer.
CWforFreedom on December 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM
That does seem to be the peer-reviewed consensus among moonbats.
ddrintn on December 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Teh kittehs have spoken: Haints, all the way, perfect.
Doorgunner on December 7, 2009 at 8:56 PM
as is the increased level of methane from the Siberian tundra thawing. and cows, we can’t forget about cows.
disillusioned on December 7, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Some version of government run health care will pass. Cap & Tax has been back-doored by the EPA. These people are marching to a different drummer and it’s not Obama driving the bus. He’s like all the others and just does what he’s told. You’ve heard him speak on his own. This man is truly a stupid individual incapable of an original, coherent thought.
Our options are running out every day. Some Republican representatives are treating this as a normal political battle. Others seem to be helping. The RNC seems to be completely in the bag.
We can hope that conservatives take over the House and snip the purse strings but I seriously don’t think we have any with the political will. In a day or two, the Senate will vote to raise the debt limit another trillion or two. The beat goes on.
CC
CapedConservative on December 7, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I am afraid you are correct these will pass. There will be no undoing this. Once these pass America as we have known it is finished.
Aviator on December 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I agree with CapedConservative. Things are looking very bleek.
mobydutch on December 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I thought shrinks were duty bound to help cure the deluded, not infect them. Silly me.
Geochelone on December 7, 2009 at 9:04 PM
republican kittens, I kid you not.
disillusioned on December 7, 2009 at 9:08 PM
I feel bad for Gibbs, I would be testy too if it was my job to defend this garbage
Daveyardbird on December 7, 2009 at 9:12 PM
So where’s all the drooling idiot OB supporters these days? Have any of you noticed that they are showing up less and less on the most popular blogs these days? If you haven’t figured out that this man is a dictatorial marxist yet, you are a fool!
Bikerken on December 7, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I’ve seen the lefty websites picking up the centrist/republican lite mantra. Support seems to be dwindling.
disillusioned on December 7, 2009 at 9:28 PM
An adaptation of Poe’s Law.
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of moonbatism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.
disillusioned on December 7, 2009 at 9:42 PM
THE STUFF THAT FIZZES YOUR CHERRY COKE IS NOT A FREAKING POLLUTANT!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for yelling.
jimmy2shoes on December 7, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Had a meeting at the university this morning… a decision was made based on the assumption of AGW… not an eye was batted… in fact, the decision was pressed as essential and AGW as a driving force behind EVERY decision we make.
The students were more adamant that even the administration. The giant university’s strategic plan was changed to emphasize “sustainability” by commiting to lower out carbon footprint.
I’m telling ya… climategate has registered a zero on the Richter Scale in academia. It’s full-speed ahead.
AGW will not die easily.
mankai on December 7, 2009 at 9:51 PM
I truly believe it’s a crock, and advanced purely to elect Democrats. On what other issue could they win against Republicans?
Leo De Caprio was on Oprah talking about warming 3 years ago, and she said, throwing a softball, “Oh what can we do?” He smiled and said, “Elect people who will do something about it.”
PattyJ on December 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM
I find it hard to believe that two thirds of the people in this country are that stupid.
Cindy Munford on December 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
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