Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. I deal with evidence and not with frightening computer models because the seeker after truth does not put his faith in any consensus. The road to the truth is long and hard, but this is the road we must follow. People who describe the unprecedented comfort and ease of modern life as a climate disaster, in my opinion have no idea what a real problem is.
When it comes to climate change, Americans are increasingly pointing the finger at nature itself as the cause, finds a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
When it comes to climate change, Americans are increasingly pointing the finger at nature itself as the cause, epic.uchicago.edu/ has the story.
According to the results of new survey, there’s been a sizeable shift in just the last five years in the percentage of Americans who believe humans are the primary driver of climate change as opposed to natural changes in the environment.
Though three-quarters of Americans believe climate change is happening, only 49% say it’s mostly or entirely precipitated by human activity — an 11% drop since 2018.
Digging into the demographics, the falloff was most pronounced among Democrats and independents. In 2018, 72% of Democrats said climate change is mostly or entirely a result of human activities; in 2023, that figure fell to 60%. For independents, the decline was even steeper: from 61% in 2018 to 42% in 2023.
Creeping doubt about humans’ impact on climate could be affecting the choices people are making, or not making, to reduce their carbon footprint.
The survey showed 89% of Americans routinely turn off lights when not needed and 68% use energy efficient appliances. But far fewer people have taken more significant steps: Only 11% have lived in a home with solar panels, and just 12% have driven a hybrid or electric vehicle.
Other interesting results of the survey:
— Americans have mixed feelings about the high-voltage power lines needed to transport renewable energy: 56% support beefing up the nation’s power grid, but that number dips to 48% if the power lines would be built in their neighborhood.
— People who live in the Southwest and on the West Coast are more likely than other Americans to say they’d consider moving to avoid extreme weather impacts. People in the Northeast are standing pat.
The survey was conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, with funding from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. Additional results are available online.
I take no joy in being perceptive when writing the post below in March 2021. Because the process becoming evident back then has only gone from bad to worse. So much more has happened in the dismantling of my birthplace USA, more extreme and unrelenting destruction of the republic. If anything, I underestimated the virulence of people carrying out the agenda of this regime.
I take no joy in being perceptive when writing the post below in March 2021. Because the process becoming evident back then has only gone from bad to worse. So much more has happened in the dismantling of my birthplace USA, more extreme and unrelenting destruction of the republic. If anything, I underestimated the virulence of people carrying out the agenda of this regime. They have revealed themselves as:
♦ Incompetent, hired for group identity and sexual preference, not knowledge or skill; ♦ Corrupt, driven by greed from the top of the house on down; and ♦ Malicious, eagerly destroying civility and causing pain and suffering for the joy of it.
Will Americans Rally to their heritage or succumb to this craven cabal?
They Swallowed It: Hook, Line and Sinker
Many will recognize the expression for taking on an idea or proposition so deeply in your gut that, like a fish on the line, there is no escape no matter how hard you try. Jacques Parizeau, one time separatist Premier of Quebec coined a similar idiom regarding voters resisting the referendum on Quebec independence from Canada. Meeting privately with foreign diplomats, he said that in the event of a Yes vote, the result would be like a “lobster pot.” That refers to the traditional wooden traps that have a one-way gate allowing a lobster to get in, but not out.
These expressions come to mind concerning the plight of US citizens following the installing of Biden-Harris in the White House. The intention of this administration is clearly to fundamentally transform America: From “The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave,” to “The Land of the Victims, Home of the Afraid.” The movement in this direction has been a long time in the works, and was only recently triggered by the election of Trump and the leftist need to cancel the alternate ideology of “Make America Great Again.” Time will tell if those now in power are reaching too far, too fast, going for broke before the majority were caught in the pot.
No doubt the program to undermine American global dominance has been operating for several generations. Those not familiar with the Marxist revolutionary four-stage process can read my synopsis article Four Steps to Take Down a Free Society
Pioneered by the Soviets and exported into many countries before their empire collapsed, the method is now employed by the Chinese Communist Party updated with cyber tools, along with traditional espionage tactics of honey traps and buyouts. The first stage of demoralizing involves teachers indoctrinating students to disparage their national heritage and destroy commitment to traditional social values and customs. Tom Wolfe wrote with his satirical wit and historical knowledge about the demise of liberal US academia into leftist dogma in his essay In the Land of the Rococo Marxists. My synopsis is Warmists and Rococo Marxists.
Of course the present manifestation flies under a different banner: Social Justice. And the reverent refer to George Floyd rather than Karl Marx. But Critical Race Theory is so obviously intended to divide and conquer a free and democratic society, you would have to be in a trance (claiming to be “woke”) to be taken in by it. Yet, indoctrinated children, now adults abound in the ranks of corporate management, others churning out copy for mass media or organizing activists in the streets and in cyberspace.
The protests in city streets of developed countries are coordinated and led by Social Justice Warriors indoctrinated in Western academies of higher education, after elementary school slanted teaching. If neo-Marxist progressive post-moderns take pride in this as accomplishing their agenda, consider what happened in China’s cultural revolution in the 1960s and is repeating itself in 2020. The useful dupes, like teachers, become outcasts and themselves targets for cancellation once power and control is seized. See article Teachers Beware Your Cultural Revolution Turning on You.
Have the scales yet tipped in favor of the slide into a socialist autocracy? Will Americans mount a resistance to this revolution? Depends on who and how many are on the line or trapped in lobster pots.
Join us for Episode 59 of Climate Change Roundtable. This week’s episode features a smackdown of the recent “fact check” that AFP conducted on Heartland’s best-selling and highly acclaimed book, “CLIMATE AT A GLANCE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS – Facts on 30 Prominent Climate Topics.”
Join us for Episode 59 of Climate Change Roundtable. This week’s episode features a smackdown of the recent “fact check” that AFP conducted on Heartland’s best-selling and highly acclaimed book, “CLIMATE AT A GLANCE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS – Facts on 30 Prominent Climate Topics.”
Host Anthony Watts and expert weekly panelists H. Sterling Burnett and Linnea Lueken will demonstrate how AFP simply ignored the facts referenced in Climate at a Glance. Instead, they opted for a zealous attempt to label the book as “propaganda.”
We’ll also cover the shifting priorities of the EPA and Biden administration regarding the new EPA emissions mandate designed to force Americans into electric cars they clearly don’t want.
And finally, we’ll laugh at some of the hate mail sent to the show!
The Heartland Institute
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