25+ years of “spreading awareness” and this is what we get
Wait 'til they find out the warmists want to keep them in poverty and worse. http://t.co/pxZ8PCpN0O pic.twitter.com/siEWxcwTZl
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 27, 2015
Climate change may be headline news in the United States but it still is barely registering in many parts of the world.
A new study on Monday in Nature Climate Change finds that 40 percent of adults worldwide aren’t aware of global warming. Using data from the 2007-2008 Gallup World Poll, conducted in 119 countries, the researchers found that the proportion of people who have never heard of global warming rises to 65 percent in developing countries like Egypt, Bangladesh and, even big greenhouse emitters, like India.
“This is after decades of scientific research, decades of media coverage, decades of international negotiations and it’s an issue on the agenda at big, geopolitic meetings,” he said.
They say this equates to about 2 billion people. So, big fail.
In all fairness, the study data isn’t exactly current, but it’s doubtful the needle has moved much. And, surely, the first thing that these new people ask is “OK, so, does that mean that everyone who believes in Hotcoldwetdry has given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their lives carbon neutral, as they now want me to do? What? They havent? Oh, they just want me to pay more taxes and restrict my use of AC, heating, energy, and cars, while restricting my life? Huh. ”
The sense of urgency increases when people understand that climate change is manmade. But other factors also play into that, including local temperature changes in parts of Asia and Africa, support for government mitigation efforts in the United States and, in China, concern rises with worsening air pollution.
Of course, in reality, there’s very little anthropogenic about it, no matter how many times Warmists say it. If it was, might they not change their own behavior and act like it’s a crisis?
