Sandy a galvinizing moment for climate-change awareness?
More than half of Americans now believe that climate change caused by human activity is occurring, and 58% say they are “somewhat” or “very worried” about it, according to a September poll by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
“After this crazy weather we’ve been having the last several years — Irene last year, Sandy this year, the drought, the fires, floods — it’s getting more and more difficult for people to deny what everybody sees with their own eyes,” said New York climate scientist Scott Mandia, coauthor of a book on the rising sea level. “I think people are starting to connect the dots.”…
Science policy analyst and University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. disagrees. “I’m pretty sure by Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg and Sandy will probably be a back-page story,” said Pielke, author of “The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming.”
“The disaster du jour” doesn’t spark the kind of sustained political support necessary to foster action on climate change, he said. “Disasters are quite normal in general. To try and make the case to people that we have an unusual or large number is kind of a hard case to make.”
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There are lies, damned lies, and the LA Times.
RoadRunner on November 5, 2012 at 5:05 PM
They also voted for Obama. So?
OldEnglish on November 5, 2012 at 5:05 PM
The climate changes?
John the Libertarian on November 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM
No.
joekenha on November 5, 2012 at 5:07 PM
’cause nothing says science like popular opinion.
Please piss off.
somewhatconcerned on November 5, 2012 at 5:07 PM
We’ve got to reverse global warming. An icy planet is soooo much more preferable than a warm one.
backwoods conservative on November 5, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Say, dead-tree newspapers are a biiiiiig contributor to global warming – knocking down carbon-dioxide eating trees to make paper, all the energy that goes into making ink, trucking the stupid heavy piles of journ0listic garbage around to stores and paper boys…. not to mention their lay-about useless journ0lists who drive everywhere to where “news” is happening (like an Obama golf game) so they can “cover” those big events. So let’s all root for newspapers to cease production and help stop global warming! Yay!
Marxism is for dummies on November 5, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Yes, because a hurricane has never hit New York or New Jersey before./
mbs on November 5, 2012 at 5:09 PM
“believe” is not Science.
profitsbeard on November 5, 2012 at 5:09 PM
NO…but it is a galvanizing moment for eco-scammers.
Several attempts (like this LAT story) will be made to take YOU on many whimsical trips down Douchebaggery Lane.
Just make sure to keep your hand on your wallet, and plenty of tissue for the tear jerking eco-scam stories.
BigSven on November 5, 2012 at 5:10 PM
LAT : “Hey, anybody remember global warming? Anyone? Bueller?
stefanite on November 5, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Chicken Little is not amused by the skeptics.
antipc on November 5, 2012 at 5:11 PM
It is if you’re a liberal.
Socratease on November 5, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Sandy was no Fluke.
WTF?
spiritof61 on November 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM
They roll this same tired story out after every natural disaster.
Fortunately, the “galvinizing moment” never happens.
cool breeze on November 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM
When the LA Times starts focusing on the environmental excesses of the film industry, which is right in their backyard, I might start to pay more attention to them.
Ed Driscoll on November 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM
Some of us have been taken down this garden path before.
sharrukin on November 5, 2012 at 5:13 PM
Hurricane Schmurricane. Wait till Quetzalcoatl brings down the final curtain on December 21. The look on Sandra Fluke’s face: Priceless.
Yo soy serpiente plumada
De donde hay piramides
Quetzalcoatl
Me llamo Quetzalcoatl…
spiritof61 on November 5, 2012 at 5:15 PM
It should be a galvanizing moment for an epiphany that BO does not have it in his power to slow the ocean’s rise and never did. The fact that so many people still cling to this ridiculous promise says something discomfiting about a segment of the American population.
Buy Danish on November 5, 2012 at 5:19 PM
Yup, I’m aware more than ever that climate change is a farce. Thanks.
Dusty on November 5, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Our country spans a gigantic continent bordered by immense oceans. The fact that people think we can “stop” what Nature throws at it by keeping our tires inflated and the thermostat at 66 degrees smacks of nothing but a cargo cult.
JeremiahJohnson on November 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Mayor-change awareness, more like.
RushBaby on November 5, 2012 at 5:24 PM
It depends.
Can one be galvanized into believing global warming influences the lunar cycle?
HotAirian on November 5, 2012 at 5:26 PM
What really gets me is that the idiots who claim to believe in man-caused global warming would much rather expend their time and resources attempting to confiscate and redistribute wealth, instead of taking concrete steps to deal with claimed effects of climate change, like, say, building unbreachable gates to the subway systems in NYC or building storm barriers. But no,
Such b.s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/opinion/nocera-mayor-bloombergs-barrier.html?_r=0
mbs on November 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM
YES!! Note in the pictures that all of the houses with a electric car in the garage were spared!!!
…Oh, wait: those were the houses that BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!
Who knew that lithium batteries explode and burst into flames when you get them wet??? …besides everyone who has been paying attention!!
Aren’t you glad you are being taxed to buy these weapons which the government uses to remove gullible people from the gene pool???
/sarc>
landlines on November 5, 2012 at 5:44 PM
They studied all the various cults in recent history to learn their tactics and are using it against the people for this weather hoax of theirs. Nothing will happen to them for pulling this.
Buddahpundit on November 5, 2012 at 5:44 PM
It’s pretty obvious that the science isn’t as important to them as having people believe that there is actual science. If I asked the people they polled “explain the science to me”, what response would I get? They threw out their actual equation a few months ago and replaced it with a doubling of the carbon sink factor, and no one even noticed. When you do that, it’s proof that you didn’t have a clue and you are just adjusting your equations based on what you can get away with at each point in time. They start with the begging the question fallacy of assuming we are experiencing the man made climate change, fix their equation to show that we are in the midst of man made climate change and then show the results as proof that we are experiencing climate change.
Buddahpundit on November 5, 2012 at 5:55 PM
Wolf! Wolf! cried the bucktoothed retarded boy.
BL@KBIRD on November 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM
The legacy media is the enemy of America…we need to drive them to bankruptcy.
d1carter on November 5, 2012 at 6:28 PM
Sheesh. Pielke ought to stick with what he knows — weather and climate — and not go making predictions about the politics machinations and/or competence of Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Cuomo, and President Obama.
Hey stupid, look at the Yale Poll. They’ve made the case to 58% of the public.
Dusty on November 5, 2012 at 6:40 PM
Great movie, “Never go full retard.” So many PC lampooned with that script that it’s hard to pick the best ones.:)
OT- I weep for my fellow humans who get sucked into this whole AWG hoax. If it where not a hoax they would be serious about doing something other than carbon credits, redistribution of wealth and more government control over our lives. The simple fact that so many people don’t see that saddens me.
Frank Enstine on November 5, 2012 at 7:03 PM
I think you skinned that grizz, Pilgrim.
Just a little clarification, but you are spot on about the blathering spittle.
AesopFan on November 5, 2012 at 11:45 PM