The data contained in the maps below was first introduced in November 2019. It would appear in keeping with an ‘issues’ survey on the midterm elections held on November 8, 2022, where only 8% of the population alleged that climate change was a genuine concern.
According to the first representative map, a full seventy percent (70%) of the American population thinks that climate change is happening. The Weather Channel supplies all of the maps and the accompanying legends.
However, when you take a look at the next map, which attributes climate change to human activities or the burning of fossil fuels, the tide very much turns. Obviously many people responding to the first question answered in the affirmative since the climate is constantly changing and does so naturally, based on literally thousands of continually modifying events in nature as well as external activities, like the sun.
Documented, studied, and investigated history, geology, and archeology tells us all about the changing climate over various time periods – and it never ends. Naturally, there is a significant variance between larger cities, urban areas, and rural locations. The only true temperature measurements are taken in the upper atmosphere by satellite or weather balloons where heat influences do not exist.
And finally, we look at a map that asks if climate change will affect those polled personally and we see yet another twist. Very few seem to think that they will be detrimentally affected by climate change. Amazing how many people are exempted from climate change yet the deceptive alarm bells continue to ring.
In my blog of November 7. 2022, entitled “Public versus Private Convictions”, I illustrate that people to the left when questioned, have a tendency to steer right towards the center when questioned privately about their innermost thoughts. This, I believe, also happens in the continuing saga of climate change.