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Anthropogenic climate change is a political science, easily proven by who believes in it and who does not. For the most part, the left are supporters while the right are doubters. The centrists are obviously split. Here’s one Pew Research survey:
Plainly, if a person says there is “no evidence”, he or she claims there is no human activity involved considering there is no change in the climate. Thus these respondents can be amalgamated with the second group both saying anthropogenic pursuits play no part. That makes the belief in human-induced climate change a veritable tie:
51% – Against
48 %– For
1% obviously didn’t understand the question. What is definitely not deadlocked is the noise and raucous factor. Those on the left make much more noise than those on the right, on every issue, but that’s because it’s much more difficult to empirically prove the mostly abstract issues and causes that they represent.
Much of the belief on both sides is simply a leap of faith and ideology. In other words for the vast majority, it is not an investigated or measured certainty but rather a devotion to political doctrine or preferred party.
In a recent high school teacher survey, conducted by the Washington Post, there were 87 Democrat teachers for every 13 Republican teachers. The latter only had a predominance of teachers in the math and science departments. In an upper academia poll of tenured college professors, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 10 to 1 – in another similar survey, Democrats tallied a total of 87% of all professorships.
This may answer why you see legions of students making headlines by protesting anthropogenic climate change and skipping classes for the student global climate strikes. The vast majority of teachers, instructors, and facilitators are ecstatic about it and undoubtedly encourage the expeditions. It also effectively reduces teaching time and likely contributes to the reason American academic scores continue to dramatically degrade.
As well, as evidenced by the chart below, the media, for the most part, are more than happy to cover and applaud the students. The preponderance of the presses are here as partisan proponents of the progressive left and to provide supporting coverage of climate change – anything adversarial to the cause is simply neglected.
So, despite the disparity is it not ironic that polls, such as the one above place the belief of anthropogenic climate change in a tie? In political polls especially around election time, one will find climate change and other environmental issues near or at the bottom of the public’s concerns list. What may be as shocking to some is that, according to Nielsen MRI Fusion, more Democrats ages 25 through 54, the major voting block on the left, watch FOX News rather than CNN or MSNBC both during the day and at primetime.
The political composition of the entire population obviously does not imitate the denizens in teaching, media, performance arts, and high tech, but they who are proven wrong, just seem to yell louder.