Framing Science : Pew: Global Warming Dead Last Among Public Priorities

One way to assess the strength of public resolve on the issue is to see where global warming or the environment sits in the classic open-ended question asking the public to name the most important problem facing the nation, or alternatively what the President and Congress should focus on. As I noted a few weeks ago, global warming and the environment surfaces as a top of mind priority among just 1% of respondents compared to more than 40% who say the economy.

Australia: Turnbull will sell his new climate change scam strategy as "founded on optimism and confidence, ingenuity and enterprise"

A consequence of Obama's success is that Australian politicians want to emulate the 44th US president.

They have twigged that his message of hope and optimism is what people want to hear - especially when times are tough - and suddenly they're all at it.

True, in typically cautious style, Rudd qualified the message at an Australia Day lunch , promising only "realistic hope, realistic optimism".

But Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull is going the whole hog.

A speech he will deliver to a Young Liberals convention today is all about hope in a crucial area -- climate change.

To weak minds, a great appeal of the global warming scam - By flicking a switch or scheduling a conference, you can allegedly be a hero!