Skepticism Of Human-Caused Climate Change Rising Globally

Written by Chris Morrison on April 28, 2023. Posted in Current News

A recent poll conducted by a group within the University of Chicago found that belief in humans causing all or most ‘climate change’ had slumped in America from 60 percent to 49 percent recorded just five years ago.

Similar falls have been recorded elsewhere, with a recent IPSOS survey covering two-thirds of the world’s population revealing that nearly four people in every 10 believe ‘climate change’ is mainly due to natural causes.

Perhaps the most surprising statistic from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago survey is that 70 percent of Americans are unwilling to spend more than $2.50 a week to ‘combat climate change’.

Nearly four in 10 Americans said they were unwilling to pay a couple of dimes.

Despite decades of relentless green doomsday agitprop designed to corral populations into living under a collectivist Net Zero-ordered society, it appears that the vast majority of Americans are unwilling to pay even the chump change in their back pockets to stop climate change.

Surveys such as EPIC and IPSOS speak to the fundamental flaw in the ‘settled’ science surrounding the suggestion that humans burning ‘fossil fuels’ are causing the climate to ‘break down’.

The hypothesis is unproven – not a single science paper provides conclusive proof.

Natural causes and the proposition that carbon dioxide becomes ‘saturated’ beyond certain atmospheric levels are more convincing explanations for scientific observations.

Fears that mainstream climate ‘science’ is heavily corrupted by faulty data, pseudoscientific modeling, and outright political cherry-picking are becoming more widespread.

Interestingly, the recent overall fall in support for human-caused climate change in the U.S. is due to Democrats and Independents.

Skepticism levels remain high among Republicans but there have been dramatic increases among Left-leaning Democrats.

Nevertheless, Democrats were found to be more likely than Republicans to be influenced by the ‘evidence’ of what is called ‘extreme’ weather (71 percent vs 30 percent for Democrats vs Republicans).

This news will bring some comfort to green propagandists since the recent lack of noticeable global warming has led to a massive rise in pseudoscientific attributions of single weather events to ‘climate change’.

Personal observations are said to influence 55 percent of Democrats, compared with 20 percent of Republicans, while appeals to higher authority play better on the Left than the Right.

News coverage ranks higher for Democrats at 47 percent vs 20 percent, while scientists, most of whom go along with the ‘settled’ agenda, score 73 percent against just 32 percent for more skeptical Republicans.

EPIC also found that skepticism was rising among young people aged between 18-29 with a 17 percent decline in numbers who think humans play a predominant role in changing the climate.

The drop was just as significant for those who graduated from college as those with a high school diploma (11 percent). Of considerable interest was this 17 percent fall compared with just a 9 percent drop for those aged over 60.

This will concern alarmists since the impressionable young are heavily targeted with green agitprop from an early age.

The IPSOS survey found that levels of climate skepticism were similar in all age categories. As with EPIC, it found that political leanings were decisive.

In the seven countries where political input was sought, 28 percent on the Left turned out to be climate skeptics, compared with 50 percent on the Right.

Is it surprising that climate skepticism is increasing throughout the world? As noted, anthropogenic climate science rests on a shaky evidence base, which no amount of debate cancellation, modeling, invented attributions and data manipulation can hide.

Over nearly 50 years, laudable environmental concerns have been hijacked to promote a collectivist, controlling political agenda.

But decades of easy virtue-signaling are coming to an end, and the harsh realities of Net Zero are starting to become obvious.

Claims that the green revolution will be largely painless are seen for the nonsense they are by the realistic Net Zero appraisal publicized by the Government-funded U.K. FIRES collaborative project.

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