Last Monday, Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection launched its first television ad as part of a three-year, $300 million campaign to scare Americans into believing the world is coming to an end if we don't stop burning fossil fuels.
Data compiled by online communcations research company MediaCurves.com indicated that only young people and Democrats responded favorably to the section of the ad dealing specifically with global warming, while older people, Independents, and Republicans seemed less impressed.
The embedded video to the right shows responses of the participants by age, while the video below the fold is separated by political affiliation (h/t Rasmussen Reports):
Pay attention to what happens in both videos as the subject moves to global warming. In the first video, notice how only the 18 to 25-year-old bar goes up at that point, while the other three age group lines decline.
As for party affiliation, watch how the Democrat line goes up, the Republican line plummets, and the Independent line dips slightly.
Seem like Al and his group of not-so merry men and women are preaching to the choir?
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He only has to convince
April 6, 2008 - 23:32 ET by jpm100He only has to convince public officials that the public believes this crap to get them on board.
Sort of the perception of the perception.
So when politicians (like a certain Senator from Arizona for example) see the media filled with Alarmism on Global Warming (AGW), he may have two reactions. One is that he may believe it himself. Or, two is that he believes the public believes it. Either way, the effect is the same.
Clear
April 6, 2008 - 23:43 ET by iveseenitallTwo things are becoming very clear--Global Warming is a hoax and Algore is a charlatan who is making a fortune on the hoax. Sad.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
jpm... I ditto
April 6, 2008 - 23:46 ET by bigtimerjpm...
I ditto that.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
This clearly illustrates
April 6, 2008 - 23:45 ET by JerryThis clearly illustrates how effective our democrat indoctrination system (better known as public education) is at instituting liberal group think.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
When the cost of actually implementing...
April 7, 2008 - 00:04 ET by Parker1227...all of Gore's (and his U.N. friends) ideas becomes apparent to the tax paying public, this debate will start getting very interesting. Especially now that the AGW crowd is back peddling, saying, "well, once La Nina stops in five or so years, the heat will really be on."
Its going to be a hard sell to oil and coal dependent home owners on the east coast when all the power and oil suppliers start passing on their carbon credit costs to people buried in snow and trying to pay their jacked-up heating bills.
"Only Young People and
April 7, 2008 - 01:48 ET by marvl"Only Young People and Democrats..."
This kinda reinforces one of my own personal tenets, that Democrats and liberals are emotionally and intellectually retarded. They are indeed like children, with an incomplete and malformed view of the world.
Meanwhile Al "Lard Ass" Gore continues to peddle the fairy tale of man-bear-pig.
He could've
April 7, 2008 - 15:25 ET by oregon_jiimsaved a few words by saying only the extremely gullible
"an endorsement of communism is an endorsement of slavery"
Global Warming no Death Ray
April 7, 2008 - 02:05 ET by tarunkjuyalA proof that the times we live in are
especially toxic is that even the take on the weather can lead to
family squabbles and talk radio hosts braying especially loudly into
their mikes.
Last month I
compared memories of Easters past in Salt Lake City with those of
Easter present. More specifically, my recollections about weather. It
seems that the Easters of my childhood were whiter and colder.
Reference: - http://lifeofearth.blogspot.com/2008/04/global-warming-no-death-ray-to-chilly.html
Will somebody please ban this spambot
April 7, 2008 - 08:10 ET by PopularTechThese are automated entries from a blog that copies content from other sources automatically. This entry for instance comes from The Salt Lake Tribune but the blog has it copied word for word with no source or quotes. At the very least this is plagiarizing.
The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource
You racist hatemonger,
April 7, 2008 - 10:04 ET by Roger the ShrubberYou racist hatemonger, wishing for yesteryear's "whiter" Easters.
Education failure
April 7, 2008 - 03:19 ET by 10ksnookerEducated people can easily see the ruse, paying higher taxes will not change the weather, even if Democrats say so.
For the ignorance part, see Colin Powell's last week's story about education in America. Pay attention to the media's covergae of it -- Oh wait, skip the part about covergae, to cover the story would be to fault the governemnt school system and the unions it supports. Sorry, you are on your own to find out what was said. It was bad.
What's that line: young and
April 7, 2008 - 05:32 ET by USA4freedomWhat's that line: young and dumb..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Romney / Jendil 2012 (if,we survive)
I disagree
April 7, 2008 - 08:01 ET by JWFI think it should read : only the ignorant and truly stupid
the young are ignorant because they have not learned the truth.
the democrat portion are incapable of learning and are truly stupid.
it sounds mean but I have my own polls wherein I listen to these people talk and I say to myself, "oh my god, he is an idiot"
(No subject)
April 7, 2008 - 08:08 ET by Agnosticmarvl
April 7, 2008 - 06:06 ET by SlicksterYou said it all. Liberals are retarded.
It would be easy to rid ourselves of algore if just one senator openly called him out on the global warming scam.
Al why don't YOU debate the issue?
Al why did you set your company up in europe to avoid the IRS?
in my humble opinion...
April 7, 2008 - 07:03 ET by sentforth5This makes algory a child abuser.
Gore's New Ad
April 7, 2008 - 07:52 ET by whodatOnly those with little or no net worth support Gore's claim.
Lack of Knowledge is directly related to Global Warming Hysteria
April 7, 2008 - 08:13 ET by PopularTechThe more you know the less you are worried about a nonexistent "problem".
Increased Knowledge About Global Warming Leads To Apathy, Study Shows (Science Daily)
"More informed respondents both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming"
The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource
A TV ad never fed a hungry child.
April 7, 2008 - 09:30 ET by Jack BauerA TV ad never fed a hungry child. A TV ad never provided a poor third world village with fresh water.
A TV ad never gave a fat, kerosene guzzling, massive carbon buttprint egomaniac another platform to spout his dangerous nonsense..oh sorry, that's incorrect.
That's exactly what Al Gorp is spending $300 million doing.
Ignorance
April 7, 2008 - 10:16 ET by iveseenitallAlgore,et.al. survive due to ignorance. Our public schools do the same. They especially love the young with immature minds which can be molded so easily. What these "liberals" have done to the nation is criminal. Gore and many "teachers" are quite dull and ignorant themselves. Add to this a dull and ignorant media to spread the canard of global warming and you've got quite a mess on your hands. Sad.
P.S. It is noted now that both the Gores and the Clintons are worth $100,000,000+. It's amazing how lucrative public "service" is these days. Sad.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Doesn't believe his own BS
April 7, 2008 - 11:02 ET by dboSeem like Al and his group of not-so merry men and women are preaching to the choir?
Raises an interesting question doesn't it? Last week Al Gore said on 60 minutes that those who oppose him on the global warming question are now a "tiny, tiny minority". If that's true, why spend $300 million on an advertising campaign?