44% of Americans Know Global Warming is a Myth
A poll released today by Rasmussen Reports states that 44% of Americans do not believe in human-caused global warming, compared to only 41% who do. This is a sea change from last April, when the numbers were 34% to 47%, respectively.
In a national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted from January 15-16, with a margin of error +/- 3 percentage points, Rasmussen asked, “Is Global Warming caused primarily by human activity or by long term planetary trends?”
41%: Human activity
44%: Long-term planetary trends
7%: Other reason
9%: Not sure
Just as recently as April of 2007, less than 9 months ago, Rasmussen asked the same question: “Is Global Warming caused primarily by human activity or by long term planetary trends?”
During that survey of 1,000 likely voters, also with a 3% margin of error, the response was different.
47%: Human activity
34%: Long-term planetary trends
8%: Other reason
11%: Not sure
We’re not sure what has led to this outbreak of sanity in the United States.
A decline in Al Gore’s cult of personality, as members are drawn into Obamaism?
American excellence in science education?
The success of the Bush Administration’s Frank Luntz-generated “Climate Change, not Global Warming” initiative?
The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes the party has “lost the environmental communications battle” and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases.
“The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science,” Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning organisation.
“Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly.
“Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate.”
Yep, I’m thinking that’d be it.
Sure, Luntz finally gave in, after years of being browbeaten by enviromental extremists:
NARRATOR: Today, Frank Luntz says the advice he offered the administration on global warming was fair when he gave it. But, he’s distanced himself from their policies since.
LUNTZ: It’s now 2006. Now I think most people would conclude that there is global warming taking place, and that the behavior of humans are affecting the climate.
QUESTION: But the administration has continued to follow your advice. They’re still questioning the science.
LUNTZ: That’s up to the administration. I’m not the administration. What they want to do is their business. And it’s nothing to do with what I write. And it’s nothing to do with what I believe.
Video available here.
But President Cheney Bush and his Administration have stayed the course laid out for them, leaving the brainwashed Luntz in the lurch. The fruits of his labor are finally being reaped, as Americans turn from the “science-based” nonsense spewed by the charismatic — some say hypnotic — Al Gore and instead pay attention to reliable and unbiased sources of information, like WorldNetDaily, Rush Limbaugh, NewsMax, and Glenn Beck.
Thank Heaven for small favors! Now, if you’ll pardon me, the Hummer is finished warming up in the driveway. I just love my remote car starter
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