Why climate polls don’t mean much | Grist

These features of policy polls — their lack of trade-offs and counter-messages, their lack of social context — make them a poor guide to the political economy of energy. High support for a policy in a poll says very little about how that policy will fare when it’s introduced to the political scrum, identified with a particular party and set of advocates and attacked by prominent figures on the opposing side. For a politician or movement trying to push a policy, high poll numbers can be a rhetorical advantage, a slight boost in the power struggle, but that’s about it. No one should fool themselves that good poll numbers are an indicator of deep or enduring public support.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Globally, May 2012 just mi

Globally, May 2012 just missed warmest on record by 5/100ths of a degree F. No sane person can claim to know planetary temps to 1/100ths

Watch Now! CFACT Rio+20 video blog inside the UN!

Yesterday was our first day attending the Rio+20 pre-conference, and boy did we have an interesting time!

The radical Greens are out in force, calling for rights for "Mother Earth" and for billing individuals, governments and corporations for their eco-debt. Watch the video below to see what CFACT has been up to at this conference.

Twitter / omnologos: Talking ethics, I can't st

Talking ethics, I can't stand ‪#climate‬ "vultures" who just wait for a disaster to blame it on ‪#agw‬ and push agenda @BarryJWoods @leohickman

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Chasing Shadows

The Union of Concerned Scientists, along with others who are still eager to cast big corporations as public enemy number one, might want to ask themselves if their own ideological obsessions have them chasing after shadows.