{"id":12983,"date":"2011-05-09T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2011-05-09T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:24:51","slug":"global-warming-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/global-warming-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the truth of anthropogenic global warming obviously doesn\u2019t rest on who believes or doesn&#8217;t believe in it, it is noteworthy that belief in global warming tends to align with political allegiance: Liberals are much more likely to be true believers than Conservatives. Even more significant is the fact that very few Liberal supporters have even read articles that question the accuracy of anthropogenic global warming theories.<\/p>\n<p>All of which \u2013 regardless of whether the earth is warming or not \u2013 confirms that Liberals are\u2026. gullible.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/05\/09\/lawrence-solomon-losing-indicators-91-of-liberals-90-of-bloc-supporters-believe-in-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a draft report from the Brookings Institute that compares attitudes to global warming in the U.S. and Canada, an astounding 91% of Canadians who identify themselves as Liberals, and 90% who identify with the Bloc, answer \u201cYes\u201d when asked: \u201cFrom what you\u2019ve read and heard, is there solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past four decades.\u201d Only 6% of Liberals and 9% of Bloc supporters have read and heard that the Earth has not been getting warmer, and just 3% and 1%, respectively, aren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Conservatives have been exposed to different views: 64% have heard that Earth has been getting warmer and 28% that Earth has not. 8% of Conservatives aren\u2019t sure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the truth of anthropogenic global warming obviously doesn\u2019t rest on who believes or doesn&#8217;t believe in it, it is noteworthy that belief in global warming tends to align with political allegiance: Liberals are much more likely to be true &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/global-warming-and-politics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[2156,1009],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","tag-global-warming","tag-liberals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}