Malinformed on Climate

Thanks to Jim Church:

Perceptions of Climate Impacts at Odds with Scientific Data

The Global Warming Policy Foundation commissioned Savanta ComRes to survey 2,285 adults. Seventy per cent said they were either ‘very’ or ‘fairly’ concerned about climate change.

They were then asked, ‘To the closest degree, how much has the average global temperature on Earth risen in the last 150 years?’ The choice was 10°C, 5°C or 1°C. Just 21 per cent of respondents gave the correct answer of 1°C, with 35 per cent saying 5°C, and 16 per cent saying 10°C. A quarter said ‘don’t know’.

Asked about mortality from extreme weather events since the 1920s, only nine per cent replied correctly that their number had fallen by 95 per cent (according to data from the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, and the international disaster database of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters). Twelve per cent thought deaths had increased 95 per cent. Forty-two per cent thought they had risen 25 per cent. Nine per cent thought they had not changed and 32 per cent said ‘don’t know’.

In other words the MSM, which is the primary source of information for the public is lying to the public and misinforming them. And it has to be a deliberate calculation on their part because the information is readily available.

Tim adds:

It's the Big Lie. They've trumped doomsday over this for decades now and the average person is too lazy to look this up for themselves - and now has trouble doing so as Google almost completely bans "denier" information despite it's accuracy.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 09:03 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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