US: 69% say "it's likely scientists have falsified global warming research".

Posted on 4 August 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

Re: Opinion poll reported in GWPF
If we take the 19% who believe “the media make global warming appear less serious than it is” as a base line of zealots, that suggests the vast overwhelming majority of people who are not zealots believe the scientists falsified global warming research, that’s an incredibly high percentage.
In a real sense this is the worst of all possible scenarios. The “science” community continues to deny there is any problem even though 7 out of 10 people believe there is. The result is that they will continue to believe their corrupt inquiries have settled the matter and there is no need to take further action – so no action will be taken and so nothing will be done to improve the confidence in climate “science”.
The result will not only be a continued lack of confidence in climate “science” but that lack of confidence will spread to all the other ‘science’ which has steadfastly endorsed the corrupt methods of climate “science”.
Climategate was a totally missed opportunity to restore public trust, indeed the reason confidence in the “science” is so low is precisely because they intentionally missed the opportunity to out the unacceptable behaviour exposed by the climategate emails. And like an infection this perception that science is corrupt will spread and spread until the public believes all science is corrupt because (almost) all of it has steadfastly refused to condemn the patently corrupt methods of climate “science”.

And now that the BiasedBroadcastingCompany has decided it is unable to criticise the “science” and broadcast contrary views, where will the pressure come that is need to make climate “science” (indeed all science) clean up its act? Not from the BBC that’s for sure! Which means that public distrust in climate science and science in general must grow until it reaches a point where even the likes of the BiasedBroadcastingCompany realise that impartiality and trustworthiness is determined by what the public see as impartial and trustworthy rather than what the BiasedBroadcastingCompany and Royal Society tell us is impartial and trustworthy.

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4 Responses to US: 69% say "it's likely scientists have falsified global warming research".

  1. Pascvaks says:
    4 August 2011 at 11:32

    When dealing with “People” the Bell Curve answers most issues-
    20% of People will vehemently support and oppose any matter under discussion. They comprise the two ‘bottom’ extremes on each side. (10%x2=20%)
    60% of People will know something about the matter under discussion and will have a half-baked opinion about the matter but are generally too busy doing the important things in life to worry about the matter. They comprise the two ‘middle’ inclines on each side. (30%x2=60%)
    20% of People will know more than anyone really needs to know about the matter. They tend to have more time on their hands or someone is actually paying them to think about it. But as luck would have it, only half of them are likely right about their position and the other half are dead wrong. (10%x2=20% of which only 1/2 are right)

  2. Pascvaks says:
    4 August 2011 at 11:59

    Perhaps it’s not too obvious and I need to add that when the percentage of People goes above 50%, which is the maximum on each side of the issue, then it is a foregone conclusion that one side is beating the pants off the other side at the moment and the matter may be thrown into the dustbin of history soon. People are a lot like the weather, you just have to wait and see what’s going to develop.

  3. Scots Renewables says:
    5 August 2011 at 00:11

    Ignoring the ridiculously skewed nature of the question for a moment, lets look at some other quaint American beliefs:
    On the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a Gallup Poll showed that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have an opinion either way.
    41% of Americans believe in ESP
    In a Gallup poll in 1999 20 percent of Americans were still sure that the sun revolved around the Earth
    In a TIME poll last year 24% of Americans thought Barak Obama was a muslim
    1 in 5 Americans believe in alien abductions
    So yeah, worrying news . . .

  4. Scottish Sceptic says:
    5 August 2011 at 07:10

    Scots Renewables … yes I’ll agree most sceptics are deluded!
    I was deluded! Then I set myself a simple test: to list the empirical science for the global warming and particularly the massive positive feedbacks and to list the empirical science against.
    I knew there was a lot of science against, what I didn’t realise was that there was next to nothing for! Let me put it this way: the sum total empirical evidence was a single 2001 study for three months over a small bit of the pacific comparing data from two entirely different satellites (i.e. any change may easily be the satellites) which was acclaimed as unequivocal evidence for manmade warming. In contrast there is getting on for half a dozen concrete disproofs including a similar 11 year study of the whole world using one series of satellite data which was widely condemned by the warmists as: “too short a period to be meaningful”.
    Our problem is that most sceptics totally underestimate the shear one-sidedness of the empirical science which backs up our case.

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