Revkin: Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public’s Concerns - NYTimes.com

In the poll, released Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, global warming came in last among 20 voter concerns; it trailed issues like addressing moral decline and decreasing the influence of lobbyists. Only 30 percent of the voters deemed global warming to be “a top priority,” compared with 35 percent in 2008.
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... A relatively cool year and a harsh winter in North America and Europe have not helped, inspiring some commentators and a small cluster of scientists to make skeptical remarks about “global cooling.”
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Mr. Obama’s political foes have already seized on the cooling of public concern.

Marc Morano, the communications director for the Republican minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has been sending out e-mail alerts, sometimes several a day, highlighting stories on winter weather and other surveys suggesting a shift in public attitudes.

Richard Littlemore | Help Write a Title for the First DeSmogBlog Book

The titles we are tentatively considering include:

Climate Science Fiction: Exposing the PR Campaign to Deny Global Warming

Courting Climate Chaos: Exploring the PR Campaign to Deny Global Warming

Fossil Fools: The PR Tactics used to Bamboozle the World about Climate Change

Manufacturing Doubt: Exposing the PR Campaign to Confuse People about Climate Change

Spinning Climate Change: Who Convinced Us to Ignore Global Warming; and How

You Can’t Spin Mother Nature: Exposing the PR Campaign to Deny Climate Change

Wind Watch: Ontario gives wind power big push

The McGuinty government is expected to announce today another $1.3 billion worth of renewable-energy projects, most of it wind, as part of its ongoing effort to “green” up the province’s power mix, the Star has learned.

Wind Watch: Sevenmile wind project dies; First Wind letter withdraws application

Originally filed under the name UPC wind on April 11, 2007, the proposal would have placed 40 wind turbines, with blades that reached 390 feet at their apex, along a seven-mile footprint on the ridge west of The Dalles.

“We’re dancing in the street,” said attorney Mark Womble, a Sevenmile resident who was part of fierce opposition to the plan. “We’re excited. We’re very happy.”