Global warming: Not an issue

Global warming: Not an issue

Virtually no voters care about global warming, according to an ABC News poll that asked voters to pick the most important issue in selecting a candidate for president.

With three presidential hopefuls who have vowed to varying degrees to wage “war” on global warming, it’s interesting that ABC has found voters don’t consider climate change important.

The poll has tracked voters’ interest in a score of topics throughout the campaign.

Far and away, the stuttering economy is what voters consider to be the single most important issue facing the presidential wannabes. The second biggest issue is the war in Iraq, though the number of voters who see that as the deciding factor has decreased by almost half since September. Health care placed third and is also decreasing. Other subjects were around 5 percent or less.

Among the score of issues voters were asked about, the interest in global warming as a presidential decider was so low it didn’t even register. Only slightly more voters thought the more general issue of environmentalism was the most important. The poll doesn’t mean global warming isn’t a concern at all, but it shows no voters consider it THE issue that has been portrayed in the media.

Considering that most proposals to deal with global warming are costly and destructive to the economy, not to mention personal freedom, presidential candidates would do well to reassess their commitment to “do something” about the climate.

The poll also raises the question of what’s really driving all the media coverage of global warming and all the political proposals to deal with the “problem.” I’ve maintained for sometime now that the global warming frenzy is nothing more than a cynical drive for power and money by a combination of corporate, political and education interests.

When one looks into the lists of the major contributors to lobby groups pushing the warming agenda, it quickly becomes apparent that there is a core group of names involved — names like Dow Corning, British Petroleum, Heinz Foundation (as in Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Sen. John Kerry and friend of Al Gore) and numerous others.

Among those consistently contributing is the New York Times Company Foundation. And if you peruse the lists of officers of environmental groups, you’ll start to notice a proliferation of prominent publishers and other media types, such as Warner Books Chairman William Sarnoff.

Global warming is being pushed by wealthy politicians, large corporations and prominent media groups and individuals. But if the ABC poll is accurate, it’s not an issue high on voters’ list of priorities.

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