The American people have serious (and reasonable) doubts about the threat posed by supposedly man-caused climate change.
While a slight majority of Americans think the planet may be getting warmer, only about one-third in a recent survey said they believe emissions from power plants, cars and factories are to blame for that. That is down 11 percent from just three years ago, according to the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
While Democrats tend to worry most about global warming, the public's plunging concern cuts across political lines. Independents, especially, are growing more skeptical: Their acceptance of claims about climate change has dropped by 26 percentage points in three years.
But here is the biggest irony in the survey: The more people know about so-called "cap-and-trade" proposals in Congress to limit industries' "global warming" emissions, the less they support those plans. Of the 14 percent of respondents who said they had read a lot about "cap and trade," opposition to that economy-busting plan was 2-to-1. Those who said they knew little or nothing about cap and trade were more likely to support that system of forcing companies to buy costly "allowances" for each ton of emissions.
Isn't it troubling that supporters of cap and trade have to rely on public ignorance of that system to impose it on the U.S. economy? And shouldn't that make Congress pause before passing expensive environmental legislation that will destroy U.S. jobs for questionable purposes?
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Yep,a poll is the best way to decide whether there is anything to this global warming propaganda. Whatever most people think must be true. In this case,global warming is down to barely true. You can't fool us Americans.
The point is that those who have become informed about the actual Cap & Trade legislation know that is a job-killing, economy-wrecking power grab that does nothing to combat climate change, while those who glibly think that it must be good for us because it addresses "climate change" are essentially clueless.
Did you know that the current proposal gives the Social Security Trust Fund adminstrator access to the general treasury, for the first time in history, to cover the shortfall that they KNOW will result due to job losses as a result of Cap & Trade?
Did you know that an entirely new entitlement will be created to send checks to poor people to pay the electric bills that they KNOW will be skyrocketing as a result of Cap & Trade? So everyone else will be paying their own higher electric bills AND subsidizing the checks going to the poor. (I submit that any household with a big screen TV or tenants with body piercings and/or tattoos be ineligible to receive electric bill money.)
Did you know that there is a provision for unemployment benefits in the legislation for those that they KNOW will lose their jobs as a result of Cap & Trade?
And this is supposed to be good a good thing for our country?
Lightnup
My mind is still open on cap and trade.I am not for it,but I need to know more on all sides of the debate. Some European countries have implimented it with apparent success,but it still seems like a strange way to skin a cat.
I won't be deciding based on the latest poll however.
We don't need a poll or survey to see that the climate has been cooling more than warming the last twenty years, the polar bear population just increased and Al Gore had a reporters' mike cut as he was trying to address those very questions. Climate Scientists and Meteorologists in the US and Europe/Britain strongly disagree with the "Climate Change' crowd because they know it is a billion dollar money- making scheme that will cripple the working poor and middle class (if there's any of us left). Last time I checked on who gets the "free" hand-out checks from Obama's "Treasury", they were distributed in minority neighborhoods only. Now THAT's change we can believe in.
BTW, in case anyone in Bubble Land has been following the story, Obama is set to sign the big, European manufactured Climate bill in Europe on Dec 7th. There, he will be pressured to sign on the dotted line (remember he now owes the Europeans for that wonderfully unbiased, non-political 'Peace' Prize he received). What the WH keeps forgetting to tell the American people though is that provisions in the document require the US to pony up big time-more than any other country, 'cause WE are the reason for global warming and world-wide pollution. The cap/tax-us-to-death bill will seem like a mere pittance in comparison.
Therefore, there will be CO 2 "credits" we must pay to the poorer countries that we have so devastated. With trillions in debt here at home and more owing to the world, I can only imagine what the next generations will be doing with their lives. Slavery, anyone?
The rest of the world has been trying for decades to get their hands on America's wealth and they are "this close" to pulling it off in the dubious name of climate change fairness. We are so screwed.