OK, first of all, the results of a new public opinion poll on global warming attitudes, reported on here, would seem to imply that nobody’s phone in worried-central Humboldt County rang during the pollsters’ phone survey.
The survey found that the more people learn about global warming, the more apt they are to slip into a so-what stupor. Throw up the hands. Not my department. Let’s go eat and then take in a movie.
Second of all, some might find it a leetle hard to credit such a survey when it emanates from Texas — from two researchers from Texas A&M University, specifically, one of whom, more specifically, is Chair in Government and Public Policy at Texas A&M’s George Bush School of Government and Public Service.
Could it be…? Nah….
This article appears in Fish In The City.
George Bush School of Government and Public Service. Oh my.
Reminds me of a highway sign I saw in Virginia:
“George Bush Center for Intelligence Exit Here.”
The only part that made sense was “exit here.”
I didn’t exit.
If anyone really believed that the more people know about global warming the less they care, those who are really concerned would stop trying to educate us and those who think the economy is more important than global warming would increase it.
Everyone in Texas is in on it! Kook.
This survey was not from the meteorology department either. Meterologists from Texas A&M were on the IPCC committee that wrote the AR4 assesment, as a matter of fact. No one is denying global warming at this univeristy, but in this survey and others I’ve seen, the publc seems to be becoming less concerned about the warming than last year. Maybe the message is becoming so overwhelming alarmist that people are tuning out. Remember how the first soldier death in Iraq made all the news? Now those deaths are hardly even mentioned in the news. Same mighe be said for global warming. Just my opinion.