See no warming, hear no warming?
In survey results published today, Estonia came in dead last among 54 countries in the proportion of its population expressing a high level of concern about global climate change. According to the survey of 27,548 respondents in 54 countries, conducted in October 2009, just 10% of Estonians are “very concerned about climate change/global warming.”
The most concerned nations in the survey were those that have recently been devasted by natural disasters attributable to climate change, including the Philippines (78% very concerned about climate change) and Indonesia (66%). Across all 54 countries an average of 37% of the population was very concerned about climate change.
Estonians’ level of indifference was almost matched by its immediate neighbor to the south. Only 12% of Latvians are very concerned about the problem about which some 100 world leaders will be meeting in Copenhagen for two weeks beginning tomorrow. Lithuanians, by contrast, are closer to the global average: 32% of them are very concerned.
Why do Estonians evince such indifference? Are they ignorant of the looming problem? Are they simply expressing a naked self-interest, stemming from the belief (or hope) that human populations in the Baltic Sea region will be among the few to benefit from global warming? Or perhaps Estonians are just reluctant to admit, to a pollster, to being “very concerned” about anything.
The survey was conducted by The Nielsen Company and the Oxford University Institute of Climate Change. Complete results are here.
It has been discovered (by the Russians no less) that the entire Global Warming issue is a hoax. Those “stolen” e-mails tell you everything you need to know about the tricks that so called scientists use to force their agenda. For every scientist that says Global Warming is a fact, there are 20 who say different. Until we get to the truth about all of this, NOTHING should change other than we all do the best we can in our own small way to be good environmental stewards. Anyone brazen enough to think that mankind can ruin the earth in any meaningful way, thinks much too highly of mankind.
There was a sizable presence of Estonians in Copenhagen conferences but it is true that the general knowledge of the issue is very low.
It is a problem mostly with media which is filled with Oil-shale industry stories by a small group of people.
We are working to share more information – last week I was talking in Domus Dorpatensis in Tartu about the Copenhagen COP15 and what is the state of things regarding climate science and action based on that. I think after this year the situation will be quite different.