Three quarters of us are idiots
Published Thu, Jun 25 2009 12:08 PM
That’s right. Three quarters of us are apparently idiots, duped by politicians and an alarmist media into believing that by reducing our so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions we can do something about “climate change.” That’s according to a Washington Post – ABC poll of 1,001 American adults.
One of the sharpest dividing lines in attitudes toward climate legislation was age, with younger adults more receptive to cap and trade and federal regulation of greenhouse gases. Nearly two-thirds of those younger than 30 said they support cap and trade, and eight in 10 support federal limits on emissions. Among seniors, about four in 10 said they back a cap-and-trade proposal, and half favor federal intervention on emissions.
What this really means is that younger adults are more gullible about the environment than older adults. This is most likely due to propagandized “education” about anthropogenic global warming, or the more politically correct term these days “climate change,” which can even cover the possibility of global cooling.
Have we really forgotten that even if we somehow managed to cut back our emissions of so-called “greenhouse gasses” back to the level of emissions in 1990 that there would only be a marginal effect? Are we really alarmed by graphs that show exaggerated rises in the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, when the real rate of increase is so small as to practically be insignificant? We’re still only talking about a few hundred parts per million after all. Does no one pay attention to the fact that recent evidence shows that there is no correlation whatsoever between global “average” temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions? Or that there is a much closer correlation between global “average” temperatures and solar magnetic activity? Or that “average” global temperature measurements are incredibly tricky to obtain when we only sample a miniscule portion of the world – mostly the part near our cities? Or even that “average” global temperatures have fallen in the twenty-first century compared to the last decade of the twentieth?
Oh wait… that last is most likely the reason why it’s called “climate change” instead of “global warming” now.
When three quarters of us are so alarmed by propaganda about the so-called “settled science” of “climate change” (Think about it, how settled can the science be when we have to change the terminology to distract from the fact that “global warming” isn’t a steadily increasing phenomenon?) that we think the government must eliminate our choices and reduce the energy available to drive our economy we’re really in trouble. Abdicating our freedom to the government seems inevitable when so many of us can’t even think for ourselves.
David and Santayana are right. Sorry about that Mr. Jacob. We just aren’t ready for direct democracy yet.
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Perri Nelson responded with: Sample size
 | Hmm... 1,001 adults. The U.S. Population is somewhat over 360,000,000 if I recall correctly. So this poll samples about 0.000278% of the population and purports to have an accuracy of plus or minus three percentage points. Amazing considering the sample size is smaller by two orders of magnitude than the sample size of carbon dioxide to other gasses in our atmosphere (0.0375%). |
David responded with:
 | ONLY 75% of us are idiots?!? Well, perhaps by this metric, but overall, America's slide into the world of a neo-Marxist "Harrison Bergeron" leads me to think that, overall, well over 90% of us are idiots... |
David responded with: Sample Size
| *heh* I could take a "sample size" of the first three other drivers I see after leaving home in the a.m. and come up with "75% of us are idiots". |
ablur responded with:
 | The propaganda is working. They have 75% of us convinced of a problem that doesn't exist.
Now in true government fashion they will attempt to fix the problem that doesn't exist so they can then fix the problem that does exist thanks to the former fix. The perpetual government machine at work. |
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