Anthony Watts:
While some people speculate there was a climate bloviage link to the recent loss of a congressional seat in Florida, we have the name calling all nighter clownfest in the Senate last Monday.
Bjørn Lomborg writes on his Facebook page: A new survey from Gallup shows that Americans don’t worry all that much about global warming.
This is very similar to the survey showing Europeans worrying a lot more about almost all other issues than global warming, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152349665523968
This does not mean that global warming is not a problem or something that needs to be addressed. But it does indicate that politicians are vastly overhyping the discussion and likely doing us a great disservice by focusing on short-term fixes like solar and wind that have huge costs but almost no benefits.
It is also encouraging that race relations is the least important worry in the US now.
Data: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167843/climate-change-not-top-worry.aspx
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Meanwhile the senate fiddles with name-calling while their constituents burn. “just some guy” writes via email:
If Democrats ever get the authority to tax to the point they would like to, using their climate scam as their excuse, it would certainly rise in importance.