Charts: Gen Xers Say "Meh" to Climate Change | Mother Jones
...That's the result of a University of Michigan study that polled some 3,000 Gen Xers and found that in the last several years their overall interest in climate change has waned.OPINION: Time to raise hell over the carbon tax (David Archibald)
Sociologist Jon Miller, the study's author, sees this as a sign of victory for the climate disinformation campaign. "I was optimistic beacuse this group of people is more scientifically literate; they've grown up in an era of of science and quantitative discussion, unlike their grandparents," Miller says. But the complexity of climate science, the long time scale it takes to play out, and seeds of doubt sown on the nightly news have caused many Gen Xers to simply tune it out.
I will summarise the findings of my last six years of research in the field of climate science in two sentences:UN tourism chief Taleb Rifai gives carbon tax warning | JunkScience.com
1) Our generation has known a warm, giving sun.
2) The next will suffer a sun that is less giving, and the world will be less fruitful.
Specifically, the current solar cycle is going to be a very long one. That will result in the climate over the following solar cycle being very cold.
THE UN head of tourism says the carbon tax should be used to make travel more efficient, not price tourists out of the market.The Inconvenient Skeptic » 2012 Global Temperature Update
What is interesting is that the NOAA May report that is being used to say how warm the Earth is globally acknowledges that it was only the United States that was experiencing abnormally warm conditions while Australia was experiencing colder than average weather. That is how weather works.
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