Poll: Climate change responsible for wild weather
By Seth Borenstein and Emily Swanson, San Francisco Chronicle
After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria blitzed the nation, most Americans think weather disasters are getting more severe and see global warming’s fingerprints.
A poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 68 percent of Americans think weather disasters seem to be worsening, compared to 28 percent who think they are staying the same and only 4 percent who say they are less severe.
And 46 percent of those who think it’s getting worse blame man-made climate change mostly or solely for the wild weather, while another 39 percent say it’s a combination of global warming and natural variability.
To paraphrase Josef Goebbels, keep repeating the same untruth ad nauseaum, and the people will believe it as the truth.
don’t give up:
Interesting individual you chose to quote. However, it’s a lot easier to keep repeating the same untruth and to get people to believe it when you have total control over all information that is disseminated, including in the news media. The following information is from Wikipedia regarding Goebbels.
Paul Joseph Goebbels: German; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German National Socialist politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler’s close associates and most devoted followers and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep, virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. Goebbels advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.
Goebbels joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and was appointed as Gauleiter (district leader) for Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. His ‘Propaganda Ministry’ quickly gained and exerted controlling supervision over the news media, arts, and information in Germany, and topics for party propaganda included antisemitism, attacks on the Christian churches, and after the start of the Second World War, attempting to shape morale.
In 1943, Goebbels began to pressure Hitler to introduce measures that would produce total war, including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labour force, and enlisting men in previously exempt occupations into the Wehrmacht. Hitler finally appointed him as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War on 23 July 1944, whereby Goebbels undertook largely unsuccessful measures to increase the number of people available for armaments production and the Wehrmacht.
As the war drew to a close and Nazi Germany faced defeat, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children joined him in Berlin. They moved into the underground Vorbunker, part of Hitler’s underground bunker complex, on 22 April 1945. Hitler committed suicide on 30 April. In accordance with Hitler’s will, Goebbels succeeded him as Chancellor of Germany; he served one day in this post. The following day, Goebbels and his wife committed suicide, after poisoning their six children with cyanide.
What a guy! [Sarcasm intended.]