Misleadenfreude
May 26, 2011 – 3:56 pm, by Jeremy Sear
 
I think the Herald Sun is proud of these results of online polling of its readers:

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/files/2011/05/readers.jpg

Anyone want to coin a word for the bittersweet sentiment of cheerful satisfaction in your ability to manipulate your customers into embarrassing ignorance and shortsightedness? There’s probably a clunky compound German word like schadenfreude, but it’d be handy to have a more elegant construction.

Australians' views on climate change

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

CSIRO was contracted by the Garnaut Climate Change Review team to review recent studies examining Australians' views of climate change, their beliefs about the role of human activities in producing climate change, and their support for various policy responses to climate change. The review also considered whether, and to what extent, public views had changed since the previous Garnaut review in 2008.
A total of 22 studies were identified and analysed. Working to the priorities outlined by the Garnaut review team, relevant information from each study was extracted, reviewed, and considered in relation to information from other studies.
From the existing research, we conclude that:

Most Australians believe the climate is changing, but fewer believe that the change is attributable to human activity.

Belief in climate change and its anthropogenic drivers has waned in recent years, reflecting trends in other Western countries.

Responses to questions about climate change vary systematically with question wording and response formatting, but these differences do not negate the overall conclusions above.

Beliefs about climate change are strongly related to political preferences, voting behaviours and gender, but no clear relationships between these beliefs and location, age or income have emerged.

Most Australians believe that Australia should take action on climate change without waiting for global consensus.

There is no clear consensus on what policy actions Australians prefer, such as setting a carbon price or establishing an emissions trading scheme.
There is a clear need for further directed research into Australians' understanding of climate change policy options, their support for those options, and their willingness to pay within each policy option.

The best ways to communicate information about climate change, its anthropogenic drivers, and potential policy responses to climate change all require close consideration and further inquiry

astro_surf wrote on May 26^th, 2011 at 7:18pm:

Yeah, real good work mate.  You try to discredit people for the sake of being a dick.

astro_surf wrote on May 26^th, 2011 at 8:37pm:


Explains the countless hours you spend here.

You should hook up with lastnail, you are both lonely bitter men with little social skills and try to discredit people by underminding them as opposed to challanging them on issues

You both also come across as closet homosexuals.  Its just an observation.