I kid you not, this is what your tax dollars pay for.

Want to fight climate change? Tell your elderly relatives to turn off Fox News.

A new survey about global warming by the Pew Research Center provides reasons for optimism. A majority of Americans favors more federal action on environmental issues, including climate change. Most respondents said we should put more emphasis on developing alternative energy sources than on expanding our use of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas.

But there is one huge caveat: older, conservative respondents aren't inclined to do much of anything — and many of them continue to believe the fiction that climate change has more to do with natural causes than with human activities.

"A strong majority of liberal Democrats (84%) say human activity contributes a great deal to climate change, with near consensus among them that human activity contributes at least some amount to climate change (96%)," according to the survey report. "In contrast, about half of conservative Republicans (53%) say human activity contributes a great deal (14%) or some (39%) to climate change. Another 45% of this group says humans play not too much or no role in climate change."

Indifference to doing something about climate change, the survey adds, increases with age — the older the respondents, the less likely they are to want the government to take action.

Although Pew doesn't say it, these findings coincide perfectly with the demographics of Fox News, which caters to older, conservative viewers. Cable news viewers in general are old — MSNBC, which appeals to liberals, has an even older audience than Fox. But it's Fox, not MSNBC, that pumps out a steady stream of climate-change denialism and skepticism.

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported on findings that showed rejection of climate science among ordinary people is uniquely American — and that Fox News was the likely reason.

Citing survey data, the author, Dana Nuccitelli, wrote that "Republicans who watch Fox News are more than twice as likely to deny human-caused climate change than Republican non-viewers, and 62 percent of Republicans watch Fox News." Nuccitelli added that the data "suggests that the presence of Fox News and other conservative media outlets may be the primary explanation for why climate denial is more prevalent in the United States than in other developed countries."

https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2019/12/03/how-fox-news-is-helping-to-destroy-the-planet?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_term=20191203&utm_content=2890780489&utm_campaign=WGBH+News

Quote from: Solar on December 05, 2019, 07:33:11 AM

I kid you not, this is what your tax dollars pay for.

Want to fight climate change? Tell your elderly relatives to turn off Fox News.

A new survey about global warming by the Pew Research Center provides reasons for optimism. A majority of Americans favors more federal action on environmental issues, including climate change. Most respondents said we should put more emphasis on developing alternative energy sources than on expanding our use of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas.

But there is one huge caveat: older, conservative respondents aren't inclined to do much of anything — and many of them continue to believe the fiction that climate change has more to do with natural causes than with human activities.

"A strong majority of liberal Democrats (84%) say human activity contributes a great deal to climate change, with near consensus among them that human activity contributes at least some amount to climate change (96%)," according to the survey report. "In contrast, about half of conservative Republicans (53%) say human activity contributes a great deal (14%) or some (39%) to climate change. Another 45% of this group says humans play not too much or no role in climate change."

Indifference to doing something about climate change, the survey adds, increases with age — the older the respondents, the less likely they are to want the government to take action.

Although Pew doesn't say it, these findings coincide perfectly with the demographics of Fox News, which caters to older, conservative viewers. Cable news viewers in general are old — MSNBC, which appeals to liberals, has an even older audience than Fox. But it's Fox, not MSNBC, that pumps out a steady stream of climate-change denialism and skepticism.

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported on findings that showed rejection of climate science among ordinary people is uniquely American — and that Fox News was the likely reason.

Citing survey data, the author, Dana Nuccitelli, wrote that "Republicans who watch Fox News are more than twice as likely to deny human-caused climate change than Republican non-viewers, and 62 percent of Republicans watch Fox News." Nuccitelli added that the data "suggests that the presence of Fox News and other conservative media outlets may be the primary explanation for why climate denial is more prevalent in the United States than in other developed countries."

https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2019/12/03/how-fox-news-is-helping-to-destroy-the-planet?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_term=20191203&utm_content=2890780489&utm_campaign=WGBH+News

"But there is one huge caveat: older, conservative respondents aren't inclined to do much of anything — and many of them continue to believe the fiction that climate change has more to do with natural causes than with human activities."

Mrs. Sup and I confess. This is us. 

Not one of these liberal activist groups ever sets the example. Its always what someone else needs to give up. If human activity can affect the climate (of course to affect the climate we will probably all be deceased before it could be measured,,,,sorry just rambling here) then if all the liberals world wide gave up bad habits they could delay world wide flooding by hundreds of years.(I just made up the years part, I figured if the liberals can make up facts, so can I.) So the big question, why are the liberals not setting the example???  That is just a rhetorical question, we all know the answer.

Quote from: supsalemgr on December 05, 2019, 08:02:02 AM
"But there is one huge caveat: older, conservative respondents aren't inclined to do much of anything — and many of them continue to believe the fiction that climate change has more to do with natural causes than with human activities."

Mrs. Sup and I confess. This is us. 

Translation: With age, comes wisdom.

Quote from: s3779m on December 05, 2019, 09:29:42 AM
Not one of these liberal activist groups ever sets the example. Its always what someone else needs to give up. If human activity can affect the climate (of course to affect the climate we will probably all be deceased before it could be measured,,,,sorry just rambling here) then if all the liberals world wide gave up bad habits they could delay world wide flooding by hundreds of years.(I just made up the years part, I figured if the liberals can make up facts, so can I.) So the big question, why are the liberals not setting the example???  That is just a rhetorical question, we all know the answer.

That's a great question! No one can answer, because if they could, libs would practice what they preach, in other words, they're all hypocrites and have no interest in personal sacrifice.

Interesting article Solar. So Fox News is killing the planet by peddling in conspiracy? How is this any better then climate alarmists who go on CNN and MSNBC spouting their radical agenda that the world is going to end in 12 years. If PBS is so concerned about the environment, they should be taking steps to become more 'green'. Yet we all know this will not be the case.

Quote from: ConservativeInCT on December 05, 2019, 01:26:16 PM
Interesting article Solar. So Fox News is killing the planet by peddling in conspiracy? How is this any better then climate alarmists who go on CNN and MSNBC spouting their radical agenda that the world is going to end in 12 years. If PBS is so concerned about the environment, they should be taking steps to become more 'green'. Yet we all know this will not be the case.

We all knew it was never about the environment.

Quote from: Solar on December 05, 2019, 01:37:51 PM

We all knew it was never about the environment.

It never is. Never has been and never will be either.