Change is what the climate does: Beat the Drum at Mother Jones

Belief in Climate Change Is On the Way Back Up | Mother Jones

MJ published that article back in 2012 which summarised a poll on climate change from Brookings. That poll found that personal experience is the most important reason for people’s believe in climate change. It is one thing to believe in climate change and quite another to think it is man made and it so important that something must be done about it. Here’s a famous quote from that article:

Conclusion: liberals need to stop nattering on about the latest research. It may gall us to do it, but anecdotal evidence (mild winters, big hurricanes, wildfires, etc.) is probably our best bet. We should milk it for everything it's worth.

So how has belief in climate change doing 2 years later after a couple of very cold winters.

CBS News Poll: Only 15% fear ‘end of days’ by global warming — same as for rapture – (Tied for ‘Most likely to end humanity’

Climate Change…Who Cares? UN poll w/ 6 million responses ranks global warming dead last

Nine poll shows 69% of Australians “don’t believe” in man-made global warming

Gallup poll: Only 17% of respondents described climate change as ‘extremely important’ – ‘Lowest number for all the issues’

Gallup Poll: Climate change is least important of 13 issues surveyed

‘People Will Pay To Stop Climate Change — But Only $5′

And how has the anecdotal evidence been trending? What message does Mother Nature have for Mother Jones?

2014 a quiet year for weather disasters in the U.S. – ‘Deadly hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires — were few and far between’

Extreme weather failing to follow ‘global warming’ predictions: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Droughts, Floods, Wildfires, all see no trend or declining trends

The Great Pause lengthens again: Global temperature update: The Pause is now 18 years 3 months (219 months)

Three quietest tornado years in a row in the record? Updated.