I don’t normally write another post so quickly, but wanted to spread this far and wide. If you get this in time, and live in Australia, please have a look at this show. Also there is a survey, so lets use our voices to show politicians who will probably act on these results, that we are concerned about our changing climate and want them to continue to act in our best interest! You can fill in the survey before the show airs.
Alicia over at Missus Moonshine is as concerned as I am about the negative impact on climate action that this may have.
After the show next week, I will post my thoughts.
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Thanks Gavin, I look forward to the show, I only hope it doesn’t make me want to throw things at the TV!
Oh Gavin, I just took the survey and I’m in the “alarmed” camp at 24% of the count. But currently, at 8.oopm Thursday, 54% are dismissive of the climate change happening! That’s over half the people who have bothered to take the survey. How can they not care????
There’s obviously a lot of work to do here. Spread the word people.
Jan
Thanks for the heads up, sounds interesting, hope youth triumphs over old.
The NY Times published this article yesterday. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/science/earth/americans-link-global-warming-to-extreme-weather-poll-says.html?ref=earth) Seems Americans are starting to put 2 and 2 together.
As for the skeptics (aka shills for Big Carbon), I found the following comment by “Arthur Goldberg” in New York to be very interesting. He writes,
The tiny, vocal minority are NOT researchers in climate. Rather, they are scientists from other fields, some reputable, who’ve been hired by corporate interests, to discredit climate research and protect the corporations. E.g., see the article “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” on January 26, 2012 in the WSJ. The the signers have no expertise whatsoever in climate science, including Allègre (geochemistry), Scott Armstrong (marketing 🙂 ), Breslow ( physiology and metabolism), William Happer (optics and spectroscopy), McGrath (chemistry), Schmitt (geology, astronaut, politician), etc.
Cheers Gavin. Is it ok to repost your post on my blog to spread the word? The 54% ‘dismissive’ is part of the reason things aren’t moving, imo.
Sure Kristy, repost away!
Cheers Gavin
By the way, the survey is rigged, and vested interests are pushing up the stats. There is no survey validation via email, so basically anyone can do the survey as many times as they like with a false email address. I managed to do it three times without issues.
Talk about a false representation of the real views of the people.
Gav
A good article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the show, and the not so surprising survey results so far!
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/a-hotbutton-issue-20120418-1x63h.html
When I did the survey a few weeks ago it was mostly concerned and alarmed. Dismissive was only a very small component. So it’s interesting to see that it moved so much in the last week or so.
Cheers
MOC
hey I was thinking though, if you add together the results for ‘alarmed, ‘concerned’ and ‘cautious’ you actually get a lot closer to matching the ‘dismissive’.
We know polls aren’t always ‘for real’ BUT if it gets people talking, and then thinking even after they walk away (from the show/computer) etc then that’s something.
Perhaps I should be living in Australia 😉 This sounds very interesting!
Very interesting. Sadly Im not surprised at the dismissers though. When I talked to my (intelligent graduate) sister recently about climate change, she responded saying that it would t happen in her lifetime (she’s 40) and she didn’t have kids, so she didn’t care what happened afterwards *aaargh*. She’s normally a nice, sane person. I sometimes think that it’s just too overwhelming for people so they go into denial. There’s also some interesting psychological research that suggests that if people hold a “just world” world view, they are more likely to go into denial, because the predicted impAct of climate change affects those who are least responsible for it – and is therefore profoundly unjust.