Explaining plummeting belief in anthropogenic climate change : The Island of Doubt

Figuring out how to get people to disregard their own sensory data in favor of graphs in a PowerPoint presentation, newsmagazine (or a blog post) is proving tricky.

Americans increasingly skeptical of global warming alarmism | Washington Examiner

To what do I attribute this decline in belief in global warming? One factor may be the weather, not just this year but over the past decade; it has gotten a little cooler, contrary to the predictions of the computer models of global warming alarmists. More important, I think, is that the election of Obama and a Congress with larger Democratic majorities has raised the real-world possibility of legislation that could inflict serious damage on our economy in order to avert a danger predicted by global warming alarmists’ computer models for the far distant future. It's one thing to accept a line peddled by most of mainstream media when it's not likely to cost you anything. It's another thing when it looks like it might cost something. The prospect of hanging, as Dr. Johnson said, tends to concentrate the mind.

YouTube - Fox - Masses Are Waking Up Against Al Gore And Obama's Assumptions

Cap and Trade and Global Warming - The biggest scam in history

[Wait a minute: Hundreds of years after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, it's still cold enough to worry about the homeless in Sacramento?]

On his blog, he wrote: "If Sacramento can't provide emergency cold-weather shelter for our neediest citizens, we fail our community and ourselves. This winter, we will not fail."