In the US, the global warming paranoia or bubble seems to be imploding. And like any social fads, bubbles eventually unravel and fade.
This from Gallup,
``The last two years have marked a general reversal in the trend of Americans' attitudes about global warming. Most Gallup measures up to 2008 had shown increasing concern over global warming on the part of the average American, in line with what one might have expected given the high level of publicity on the topic. Former Vice President Al Gore had been particularly prominent in this regard, with the publication of his bestselling book, "An Inconvenient Truth," an Academy Award-winning documentary movie focusing on his global warming awareness campaign, and Gore's receipt of a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
For us, climate change is a real phenomenon. It's plainly the work of mother nature than from the activities of people, the latter of which constitutes only a fraction of influence on nature.
Common sense tells us that if we can't predict earthquakes what more for us to presume the accuracy of gloom and doom predictions or the alleged adverse consequences from "carbon emissions", years ahead.
People's belief in the gospel of model derived scientific analysis had been unwarranted; if quant models failed to predict the latest financial catastrophe, and was believed to have exacerbated the crisis, how much more should we come to believe that people's presumed actions (based on models) are far potent than the influences of mother nature?
Obviously, anything unsustainable won't last.
And with climategate or the revelation where mainstream scientists had been unmasked or exposed to have 'manipulated, suppressed and or distorted' data just to be able come up with conclusion that weather changes was due to anthropogenic reasons, the mainstream scientific model has been under siege.
Gallup adds, ``Some of the shifts in Americans' views may reflect real-world events, including the publicity surrounding allegations of scientific fraud relating to global warming evidence, and -- perhaps in some parts of the country -- a reflection of the record-breaking snow and cold temperatures of this past winter. Additionally, evidence from last year showed that the issue of global warming was becoming heavily partisan in nature, and it may be that the continuing doubts about global warming put forth by conservatives and others are having an effect."
So partisan politics and empirical evidences have been mainly responsible for this change in sentiment.
Of course what's not been said is that partisan politics is the attempt to pin the blame on people actions for changes in weather so as to justify measures to control or regulate people's behavior (euphemistically called socialism).
In the Philippines, media remains reticent about the global warming bubble. That's because it seems fun to live in a fantasyworld in the belief that a political superman would come and save the day from the villains (markets) or mother nature.
This from Gallup,
``The last two years have marked a general reversal in the trend of Americans' attitudes about global warming. Most Gallup measures up to 2008 had shown increasing concern over global warming on the part of the average American, in line with what one might have expected given the high level of publicity on the topic. Former Vice President Al Gore had been particularly prominent in this regard, with the publication of his bestselling book, "An Inconvenient Truth," an Academy Award-winning documentary movie focusing on his global warming awareness campaign, and Gore's receipt of a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
``But the public opinion tide turned in 2009, when several Gallup measures showed a slight retreat in public concern about global warming. This year, the downturn is even more pronounced."
The accompanying charts...
shows how American sentiment towards global warming appear as...
collapsing!!!
For us, climate change is a real phenomenon. It's plainly the work of mother nature than from the activities of people, the latter of which constitutes only a fraction of influence on nature.
Common sense tells us that if we can't predict earthquakes what more for us to presume the accuracy of gloom and doom predictions or the alleged adverse consequences from "carbon emissions", years ahead.
People's belief in the gospel of model derived scientific analysis had been unwarranted; if quant models failed to predict the latest financial catastrophe, and was believed to have exacerbated the crisis, how much more should we come to believe that people's presumed actions (based on models) are far potent than the influences of mother nature?
Obviously, anything unsustainable won't last.
And with climategate or the revelation where mainstream scientists had been unmasked or exposed to have 'manipulated, suppressed and or distorted' data just to be able come up with conclusion that weather changes was due to anthropogenic reasons, the mainstream scientific model has been under siege.
Gallup adds, ``Some of the shifts in Americans' views may reflect real-world events, including the publicity surrounding allegations of scientific fraud relating to global warming evidence, and -- perhaps in some parts of the country -- a reflection of the record-breaking snow and cold temperatures of this past winter. Additionally, evidence from last year showed that the issue of global warming was becoming heavily partisan in nature, and it may be that the continuing doubts about global warming put forth by conservatives and others are having an effect."
So partisan politics and empirical evidences have been mainly responsible for this change in sentiment.
Of course what's not been said is that partisan politics is the attempt to pin the blame on people actions for changes in weather so as to justify measures to control or regulate people's behavior (euphemistically called socialism).
In the Philippines, media remains reticent about the global warming bubble. That's because it seems fun to live in a fantasyworld in the belief that a political superman would come and save the day from the villains (markets) or mother nature.
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