Richard Dugi ISU 103 Knowing Nature

Murdoch University

January, Sunday 2nd, 2 014

Public attitudes & government policy

Climate Change

Key findings / results 58% mostly anthropogenic

71% NO wealth to Less Developed Countries

62% NO co2 tax & cap & trade

78% Never heard of Maurice Strong or Global Conservation Bank

82% YES tax incentive for trees

Conclusion

Policies need to change and the solutions are shamefully simple

Project description Objective A survey to investigate public attitudes

toward climate change and how the results might be interpreted and used to shape policies

Results There was an overall consensus that

policies need to be changed

Project methodology

45 People

12 different countries

surveyed in person and online in 5 languages

Overview

58% mostly anthropogenic, 27% mostly natural, 15% Other

71% No wealth from MDC to LDC, 20% Yes wealth from MDC to LDC, 9% Other

62% No co2 tax & cap & trade, 22% Yes co2 tax & cap and trade, 4% Other

78% Never heard of M. Strong or Global Conservation Bank , 13 % Yes,

9% Other

82% YES tax incentive for trees, 16% No,

1% Other

Results

Survey designed to investigate public attitudes and generate debate

questions asked were not the usual questions seen previously

Links were provided about questions at the end of the survey so as to provide further information & help educate

results were interpreted and used to come to make decisions about what policies should be taken to mitigate against climate change

Objective

Project Description

Key assumptions asking people from both more

developed countries (MDC) and less developed countries (LDC) was very interesting how that effected results

Especially in the question of wealth transfer

Almost everyone was familiar with climate change however its surprising that several were completely unaware about climate change or aspects of the implications for the earth and all life forms on it

45 People in total were asked from 12 different countries. (29 MDC & 16 LDC)

5 people were surveyed in person

40 people were surveyed online using Facebook

In 5 languages

Procedure / Methodology

Causes of Climate Change

Do you think that climate change is occurring mostly because of natural solar activity from the Sun solar cycles and the Moon’s lunar cycles or climate change is mostly caused by anthropogenic, that is man- made forces of releasing CO2 and other green house gases?

Natural cycles

Man-made

Other

majority of people believe climate change is man made

main reason for choosing other was they believed it was a balance or were unsure

in reality natural forces drive the climate

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Reasons for

Climate change

Natural

cycles

Man-

made

Other

Do you agree with the United Nations plan to usher in a New World Order of global governance of unelected bureaucrats and officials and the transfer of wealth from developed western nations to less developed countries as a solution to climate change?

Yes

No

Other

Most people from MDC oppose wealth transfer

People from LDC are for wealth transfer

Others were unsure

Wealth Transfer

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Wealth Transfer from MDC to

LDC

Yes

No

Other

Do you think that a carbon tax and/or a carbon cap and trade trading system are effective means of combating climate change?

Yes

No

Other

Current solutions proposed by the UN is not the answer

Does virtually nothing to reduce co2

Designed to generate $

Carbon Tax/Cap & Trade Results

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Carbon Tax/ Cap & trade

Yes

No

Other

Have you ever heard of Maurice Strong aka ‘the Godfather of Climate Change’ who is set to make billions of dollars through carbon trading exchanges or The World Conservation Bank owned and set up by the Rothschild’s which is a private bank that will handle all the funds generated by carbon tax, similar to the Federal Reserve Banks?

Yes

No

Other

Only a few people have heard of Maurice strong

Virtually no one has heard of The World Conservation Bank

Others didn’t understand the question or didn’t care

Maurice Strong & World Conservation Bank

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M. Strong % WCB

Yes

No

Other

Do you think that a tax incentive for planting trees is a good way to reduce the extra amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?

Yes

No

Other

Many are for reforestation and permaculture food forests

the comment was made we must think bigger

Other comment was people will manipulate the system

Tax incentive for planting trees

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Tax incentive for tree planting

Yes

No

Other

Policies need to change solutions are shamefully simple

Climate change is and always has been happening

Degree of change caused by natural or anthropogenic forces needs more research

Current solutions proposed by the UN is not the answer in the form of carbon tax and cap and trade

Small group of elites stand to make billions if not trillions of $ draining what little wealth the common man has

An overwhelming amount of people agree that reforestation is a better solution

The simple solution to climate change is a permaculture revolution

Conclusion

Climate poll

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/23/3096211/poll-government-climate-change/

climate poll

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/

Global climate regime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8oiQ3vjE0

Lord C. Monkton

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/01/ipcc-silently-slashes-its-global-warming-predictions-in-the-ar5-final-draft/

Global warming or global government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u81qXOYfKg

Life and times of Maurice strong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhkxC1Q2FNU

Carbon tax Australia – everything you need to know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lDxp8sAIX0

Bibliography

Discuss any of the questions in the survey. For the solution see: http://www.geofflawton.com/fe/32461-surviving-the-coming-crises

Questions & Discussion