Loss of support for Global Warming has crossed party lines.
The activists that have been pushing Global Warming had changed their language recently to Climate Change since, well, the planet is not warming. Just last winter some tried to dismiss this by saying that natural forces will stop global warming for years or decades before returning. In fact, 2008 was the coolest year for the planet since 2000. Sure there are reports about warming, but their is a discrepancy in the scientific community about the best way to measure global temperature. The support for global warming comes from ground based weather stations, which has been shown to be flawed. In this report from surfacestations.org, 90% of US weather stations have been found to report temperatures too warm. This has been attributed to factors such are placement on asphalt parking lots, and exhaust from buildings ventilation systems. The satellite based temperature measurements, a system devised and perfected by Dr. Roy Spencer shows that the planet as actually been cooling on average in the past decade.
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See the Pew research polls in the slide show below, as the support for human induced climate change has dropped from all spectrums (Republicans, Independents, and Democrats). This also crosses regional boundaries...so it is not just the cooler Northeast or Great Lakes areas dismissing the claims.
From April 2008 to October 2009, there were 1,500 people surveyed:
A comparable decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels. Just 36% say that currently, down from 47% last year.
See more poll questions and results in the slide show below:
When world leaders claim that we have a benchmark approaching for no turning back, it seems a bit contrived. The claims of how long we have left have contradicted themselves, as reported here last March. Many stories have been covered here and by my predecessor are just a small sampling of the contradiction to what has been portrayed by the mass media.
- Arctic Sea Ice shows a recovery but NASA is not telling you
- G-8 Nations promise to stop global warming but it's already cooling
- NASA report of thinning arctic ice is deceiving
- Unusually cool and wet spring in the US
- Read scientists open letter to congress: You are being deceived about global warming
- Why did the EPA smother a scientific report that questioned global warming?
- Obama targets greenhouse gases for cars after a morning with record low temperatures
- The Gore Effect
- Great Lakes ignore global warming
Comments
I'd just like to add that it's not only the public! the serious scientific momentum has shifted towards cooling v. warming and natural causes v. human. I've never heard any credible scientist back up Al Gore disaster scenarios- only politicians, celebs and journalists?
waste of space
Perhaps the waste of space is your comment hellcat. Shouldn't the obvious be reported while the facts get distorted. The Obama administration is about to sign away our freedom in Copenhagen in December, while PM Brown states we have less than 50 days- which surprisingly times out with that conference. Wake up and smell the socialism! This is a scam like Y2K, except this is natural and new excuses are being made up to try and dismiss that.
The planet must cooling... why else would the polar caps be melting? This article is worse than wasted space.
Oh Dean... how ignorant. The ice melts every summer and rebuilds in the winter. The amount of ice holding through the summer has increased the past two summers. The ice is 'beginning' to recover around the North Pole. Since you mentioned 'caps'- plural, then you must know that there is also the Antarctic ice sheet and that is growing. According to a recent report: East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for an April meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades".
Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally," Dr Allison said.
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