Thursday 10 May 2012

Welcome Aboard Americans

What about those crazy American eh? They drink their tea cold, call petrol gas and named a town Dicktown in New Jersey. Yep, mad as a bag of frogs but i think we can overlook their beverage drinking mishaps and mad town names considering they gave us some of the best TV and music during my lifetime.
Of course being the worlds greatest polluters until very recently should not be forgiven, nor the people who attempt to shrug off the damage to the climate which unfortunately is quite a few of the cold tea drinking Yankees.
Or so we thought because a survey from Yale and the George Mason University, have discovered that a large majority of Americans believe that the swathe of weather disasters to hit America these last few years were probably made worse by global warming.
'Most people in the country are looking at everything that’s happened; it just seems to be one disaster after another after another' said Anthony A. Leiserowitz of Yale University. 'People are starting to connect the dots.'
The poll suggests that a large majority of the public, 69%, feels that global warming is real and affecting the weather in the United States although the most striking statistic is that over a third of the public reported being affected by extreme weather in the past year.
Finally and all it took was fatal tornadoes, hurricanes and heatwaves in their own backyard.
It is a well placed blow to all those who deny the climate is changing, the American public are believing their eyes over your words.
Welcome aboard, it's always better to be late than never.
Now, about that cold tea...

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

you forgot that we used 2 atomic bombs 400 years ago...

and we took land from the native americans at sword point 3000 years ago.

it also so happens that the same 69% of americans have no advanced education, 69% do not know the difference between the UK and england, 69% have been thru divorce, 69% are over weight or obese, 69% have a harmful addiction, 69% cheat on their taxes, 69% are cheating on their spouse, and 69% have a negative networth.

they are a really good group to use for thrid party validation... oh, and they think al gore is a journalist too!

q

Nog said...

To think that the last thing that 69% of Americans probably agreed on was the Iraq War...

Anonymous said...

I would like to remind people on this forum that the U.S. is the greatest nation in the history of the world. It is exceptional and its people are heavily exceptional and God-fearing.

Last night I had a dream and God told me he had made Americans his children now. "Phooey on the Jews," He said, "and their black hats. Besides Mitt Romney will ensure My Kingdom on Earth will become a reality. His Mormon loins are truly bountiful! And he has agreed to build sharemarket casinoes on every street corner! Yeehah!"

I can't say more at this time but when next God calls me on the Heavenly Telephone, I'll drop by and let you know what's in store.

Americans needn't worry but you other mothers had better start praying!

Rev. Algernon Wrinkledik

Loyal, Humble, God-fearing Yank.

Anonymous said...

same tripe from you everytime regardless of subject.

do you have any other thoughts.

are you out free or are you institutionlized and this is your only outlet?

thought you blessed us with abscence...

q

Lucy said...

Mr Anthony A. Leiserowitz of Yale's figures q, not mine. I would have said over two thirds of the American population as it just sounds like more people and to be honest, we are all in the business of playing up our side of the argument.

Good point Nog but that was more of a case of having no choice but to 'believe my words'. Or not as a third of the population chose.

Any comment on the cold tea drinking thing?

Anonymous said...

lucy,

I'm NOT questioning the number or the method in this case because i'm shocked its that low based on personal interactions.

MY POINT is the "average" American isn't very good at managing their personal lives. Luckily we allow a lot of immigration.

So, what the American masses think is of little concern to me except to keep track of where the next onslaught if idiocy will come from...

"Wisdom of the masses" is only valid for trivial things because the masses are not wise.

q

Anonymous said...

lucy,

the mean, personal remark was directed at david g. i thought the russian hooker was at least funny. his latest is lame.

q

Lucy said...

I thought 69% was quite high. When i began reading it i thought it was going to be closer to 33% so i was pleasantly surprised. Most shocking figure was that over a third have been directly affected by extreme weather. In such a wide open country, that is a lot of people in a lot of areas. Or they and I mean different things when we say extreme weather.

Anonymous said...

no lucy,

the people are not in a lot of areas. i work or a property and casualty insurance company and the damn states have allowed people to build in flood plains in the midwest, and along the shore in the south. we have twice as many americans today as we did in 1970 and for the first time ever we have more people in urban areas than rural. cities like dallas, tulsa, kansas city, denver are busting at the seams (tornado alley). new orleans, houston (4x bigger than 1970), tampa, miami, the whole n. carolina coast are busting at the seams. phoenix, tucson, and vegas (fires and floods). all growing dramatically. memphis, st louis are growing (mississippi river!).

"people" are somewhat smart (if not undisciplined) but "the people" are a stupid, emotional, roller coaster...

q

Lucy said...

I see, that's interesting q. The areas where floods, tornadoes etc occur most frequently are now being used to build on due to population increase. That's a problem that is only going to get worse all over the World as the population continues to grow.

Cheezy said...

Relevant to this topic, I just read this story on the Guardian... seems there's an interesting podcast series coming up, with radio producer/presenter Neil Denny doing a 'science & scepticism' roadtrip across the USA... He wants to get to the bottom of who's winning the 'science wars' out there, and to try and resolve this apparent contradiction:

"At the same time conspiracy theories about a wide range of events from 9/11 to the moon landings remain widespread, and climate change denial continues to be a significant political force. Yet it remains a fact that America was founded on explicitly Enlightenment principles, is a bona fide secular state, will remain for the foreseeable future the number one country for science research in the world and contains a significant proportion of the world's top-rated universities. This contradiction has always interested me."

They're going to be posted here.

Lucy said...

That could be very interesting, thank you Cheezy.

Anonymous said...

lucy,

it really is true globally. people want to be near water, mountains, and forests for a lot reasons. even our desert cities like las vegas, phoenix, tucson, santa fe, albuquerque have nearby mountains, forests and rivers. same around the world. from dallas west to the pacific the usa is basically empty except for a few cities. you see signs like no gasoline for the next 200 miles.

q