Posted On: Wednesday - July 16th 2025 8:27PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Global Climate Stupidity Media Stupidity
I would never have gotten to see CNN but for this Gateway Pundit post from last week - CNN Data Analyst STUNNED That Majority of Americans Are NOT Worried About Climate Change (VIDEO).*
From my fruitless search for the clip on youtube (you'll have to watch a couple of rumble commercials, or maybe not) I see that this guy Harry Enten is some sort of poll anal-ist (heh! - shades of Andrew Anglin... but funnier!). There are loads of clips of him analyzing a few simple poll numbers for the CNN viewers like
This is not meant to be hilarious, people, but it sure is to me. If you can spare a few moments of your time for this infotainment... Oh, he's a SENIOR data analyst, I just heard, so ...:
"Climate activists [Ahaaa!, Activists (and maybe some of those agitators)] have NOT successfully made their case to the American people." That only 40% of Americans are Greatly Worried about Climate Change and that it's the same as 25 years ago "boggles the mind" of this unbiased, simple just-the-numbers-guy data analyst Harry Enten. He went on about that, after all the weather phenomenon Americans like him have been watching on TV all those years, probably CNN, I mean, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, arctic deep freezes, godless tornadoes, floods, hail storms,
Wait, it gets funnier. From '06 to '25 the percentage of people, no, poll respondents, who are worried they'll be natural disaster victims has gone down from 38% to 32%. For you non-data-analysts, that's a 6 percentage point drop, but a drop of 16%. What SHOULD that number be? Well, people get overly worried, so I guess we won't get into the psychology of it, but as for their actual chances of being a natural disaster victim, how much disaster are we talking about here?
Most of us will have some tree we like blown down or a favorite plant dead from a long drought when the renters don't give a hoot. We have a good chance of some roof damage from hail or tree branches sometime in our lives. What about a pipe bursting some day? Sure.** Your house burning down in a fire would be more likely due to having not shot enough squirrels than any natural disasters, at least where I live. (They chew on things, and wiring doesn't like to lay around uninsulated.) Those of us with EV's, well, all bets are off.
That's life, and those are things that don't have us Greatly Worried in general. Will family members die or will we lose all our property due to Climate Change? No, even if there were some ACTUAL understood trend, only 32% of us are worried about its effect on us personally, though the actual chances for any or all natural disasters could be looked up and found to be a couple of orders-of-magnitude lower than 32%. But, "The numbers are going DOWN!"
Those worried about the effect of Climate Change on their home area are 17% of
"How afraid ARE Americans of Climate Change, Harry?" Not afraid enough, I'm afraid.
We gotta DO something?"
"What? What CAN we do to save the planet? I was told it was already too late by a week ago this Tuesday! Dammit, Jim!"
"No, not saving the planet. Seriously, I mean we gotta do something to make people more ALARMED!
* Even with that "(VIDEO)" advertisement, one must wait, scroll, and see some really nasty ads to get to it. I have saved you all the trouble. We don't have ads.
** Yeah, they got that Pex now, but I don't trust that stuff.
Comments:
Moderator
Monday - July 21st 2025 6:41AM MST
PS: Sorry for the very late reply, Possumman. Probably not too many, but some parents will. Dr. Seuss is a treasure and still has any other 3-6 y/o children's book authors beat IMO.
Possumman
Friday - July 18th 2025 6:54PM MST
PS. Thank you for the Bartholomew and the Oobleck reference. We had the book on my childhood bookshelf back in the early 60s,. I wonder how many got the joke?
Moderator
Thursday - July 17th 2025 10:03AM MST
PS: Fred, I see you got in "Climate Disruption" on one panel. That's one that didn't really take, and I thought I'd made it up. Thanks for the cartoon.
That the official name is changed every decade or two has got to turn some people off the hoax. It also doesn't help when you get ridiculous, such as with "Global Boiling".
That the official name is changed every decade or two has got to turn some people off the hoax. It also doesn't help when you get ridiculous, such as with "Global Boiling".
Fred the Gator
Thursday - July 17th 2025 7:18AM MST
PS
It's climate narrative fatigue. Here's a cartoon I drew back when I had delusions of cartoonishness:
https://sunbot.homedns.org/~fred/newcartoons/03-global-warming.jpg
It's climate narrative fatigue. Here's a cartoon I drew back when I had delusions of cartoonishness:
https://sunbot.homedns.org/~fred/newcartoons/03-global-warming.jpg
The Alarmist
Thursday - July 17th 2025 4:41AM MST
PS
Enten: German plural of ‘duck.’
Harry Ducks ... hmmm.
CNN should make the case that fewer people are alrmed because they are increasingly distracted by that Chinese mind-control weapon, TikTok. Getting TikTok banned on NatSec grounds might bring back some of CNN’s eyeballs.
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Enten: German plural of ‘duck.’
Harry Ducks ... hmmm.
CNN should make the case that fewer people are alrmed because they are increasingly distracted by that Chinese mind-control weapon, TikTok. Getting TikTok banned on NatSec grounds might bring back some of CNN’s eyeballs.
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - July 16th 2025 10:36PM MST
PS: You're welcome, Mr. Moderator.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-guru-harry-enten-gobsmacked-by-brutal-epstein-poll-for-trump/
https://i.ibb.co/N2BZYkrW/More-Europeans-die-from-lack-of-AC-than-Americans-die-of-gun-related-causes.jpg
Cheers! ☮️
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-guru-harry-enten-gobsmacked-by-brutal-epstein-poll-for-trump/
https://i.ibb.co/N2BZYkrW/More-Europeans-die-from-lack-of-AC-than-Americans-die-of-gun-related-causes.jpg
Cheers! ☮️
SafeNow
Wednesday - July 16th 2025 9:03PM MST
PS
Harry, according to his Wikipedia page, is Jewish, and was graduated with high honors by Dartmouth. I therefore assume he is a smart guy…in the college boards / IQ sense. However, he suffers from that certain trait- - not uniquely Jewish, but high-prevalence Jewish - - whereby he assumes everyone else is an idiot, so keep it very simple. Giving him the benefit of the doubt: His bosses told him to keep it simple because that’s our audience. Netflix suffers from this, from what I have heard about their movies. But msybe they are both right. Even Dan Henninger, writing for his WSJ audience, wrote “the poet T.S. Eliot.”
Harry, according to his Wikipedia page, is Jewish, and was graduated with high honors by Dartmouth. I therefore assume he is a smart guy…in the college boards / IQ sense. However, he suffers from that certain trait- - not uniquely Jewish, but high-prevalence Jewish - - whereby he assumes everyone else is an idiot, so keep it very simple. Giving him the benefit of the doubt: His bosses told him to keep it simple because that’s our audience. Netflix suffers from this, from what I have heard about their movies. But msybe they are both right. Even Dan Henninger, writing for his WSJ audience, wrote “the poet T.S. Eliot.”
Moderator
Wednesday - July 16th 2025 8:35PM MST
PS: Ahaaa, pre-positioned comment from earlier this afternoon. Thanks, Mr. Smith!
Adam Smith
Wednesday - July 16th 2025 10:57AM MST
PS: Happy 3300th post, Mr. Moderator! ☮️