these polling changes are probably less attributable to the issues of the day (health care debate, financial crisis), than to the fact that we have had a very below normal temperature pattern for some twelve months now. while highly unusual and almost certainly due to the strange effects of global warming, its counter-intuitive nature doesn't associate as such in one's mind. and it doesn't come with massive heat waves which kill large numbers of elderly, infirm, homeless, etc. (in fact, if anything, it's a net positive, since people aren't getting hit in the pocketbook with high cooling bills). same goes for other climate-related events: overall lower incidence of wildfires, and remarkably uneventful hurricane season thus far. of course, the rest of the world continues to be battered, with terrible drought in e. africa and unbelievable typhoons in the pacific, but these are, per usual, under-reported in the msm and, when given some attention, there's never (or very rarely) any mention of global warming. the coverage of the recent tsunamis was much more exclamatory than that of the typhoons.
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