Australia - Looking at polling

Well before Wayne Swan did his backflip over a parliamentary review of the emissions trading policy, the poll threw up that 41 per cent of respondents thought the scheme should be deferred because of the financial crisis versus 39 per cent believing the government should press on.

Another poll question asked respondents to list the most pressing issues for 2009 – it would hardly be a surprise that 68 per cent cited the economy, but what, I wonder, did the government make of just 14 per cent saying climate change? That isn’t even the Greens plus green-leaning Labor vote.

Extreme weather is a taste of the coming Age of Stupidity

I have been making a list of things for which global warming has been blamed. It now includes fires, floods, droughts, freezes, thaws, heat waves, cold spells, kidney stones, stock market crashes, male pattern baldness, American Idol, obesity, and the flopping of a souffle.

Could all these things really be the fault of global warming? Apparently, yes. It is an extremely complex effect which touches literally everything.

The truth of this is shown in a brilliant new movie called The Age of Stupid (a label for the current era, as seen from the year 2055).

When it Comes to Climate Change, Errors Abound | GlobalWarming.org

I am an unabashed global warming “denier,” but I nonetheless applaud Brad Johnson’s efforts. On the topic of global warming, misrepresentations of the science abound, and we in the energy/global warming policy community should root them out and expose them with vigilance.