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Golly 'G' the answer is simple as simple can be. Stop scaring them with your doom and gloom stories in the classroom, on the TV, and afterschool programs. When I was a kid, I had the same thing only it was the coming ice age.
In fact, if you'll check your research, the more public programs they're enlisted in, the more scared they are simply because they're literally more indoctrinated with your fearmongering.
When I was a child I had the same fears about nuclear war. I think now on some level kids are much more tuned in to the collective consciousness.
What's certain is collectively we have done them an indescribable disservice through willful denial, and these fears are not without validity.
So are there any previous studies to show that this is different than it was before. I know in the 1960s most of us thought there would be nuclear war before we grew up. My eldest daughter at age four, in the 1980s, wished for the world to still be there when her kids grew up.
It's sobering to know our children worry, but without any frame of reference . . .
We are always on the edge of some perceived Apocalypse; as a child in the early 1980's, I was pretty sure that we would end up in a nuclear war with the USSR. My parents had similar fears as children. My grandparents had other fears...and...go back as far as you like.
I think there is a twofold danger here; one is that children need to be given a sense of hope and security and some are perhaps not receiving that. Two, there is room here for climate change deniers to say, "Well this is always happening; people need some doomsday scenario to fret over and this is just the current thing. It will all pass; the big fears about a nuclear war were unfounded and so is all this blather about the environment."
Children are especially susceptible to negative language and we've perhaps, had an abundance of that. Speak clearly about the real dangers, but take care to offer a positive way out (and here, I'm meaning specifically in our dealings with children). The issues are real and tangible, but we need to remember the needs of children and how they perceive what is happening around them.
However, to look at the darker side; the kids may be right. The Earth may be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood. Perhaps we need to prepare them for that. It will do them no good service if we maintain this completely rosy view of the future--if that's not the future they will face.
This is great news! If today's children have some fear about losing their earth then they will be the ones to save it when they grow up and pass these traits down to their children and so on and so on...
When I was growing up I worried about getting nuked by the Soviets. In the 20th century we became a global society, and it seems natural that children who are aware of the global challenges faced by adults should feel fear about what will happen if the adults fail. Would there be anyplace to run to for safety?
I think it's about time Sting did a song called "If the Parents Love Their Children Too." Or maybe Weird Al needs to parody Sting's "Russians" song and update it for the new big global fears of ecological disaster and corporate greed.
This is very interesting data. Do you think the reason for more minority children fearing the destruction of eath is a result of lack of credible information in urban areas?
I was told/taught throughout school that by 1980 there would be no more oil in the world and that people would be literally falling off the planet due to over population. This is how one learns to be cynical.
congrats enviros
Well, I'm not really surprised. My son has been totally brainwashed by the public school system in the United States regarding the horror of global warming. No wonder kids are worried about it - they hear all about it all the time at school. No offense to the principles of responsible stewardship of our earth, but some teachers are going overboard. I'd prefer that common sense and personal responsibility regarding the environment be taught rather than activism - you end up with kids who are happy to tell you all about how you're contributing to global warming but who can't remember to turn out their own lights!
I really don't believe so many children are so directly concerned and anxiety ridden about the Earth. But to the extent they are, you can blame the Global Warming alarmists pumping junk science into their heads. They have parents who are as gullible as children and pass their fears along.
In polls from times past the question would be do we fear nuclear war? That question has a basis in reality. An climate-based Earth apocalypse does not.
Brilliant. Scaring kids into having psychoses about things they can't change, the enviro-lobby having convinced them and their go-along parents that they are personally responsible for climate change. And that they should fret over it.
Sounds like Mr. Crighton was pretty close to the mark: the real key to the future success of the environmental movement is to drum up support (and thus financial support). Sounds like it's going swimmingly.
I'll do my best to keep this tripey manufactured guilt from my children.
Environmentalists promote fear and do nothing that can affect the Earth in any substantial manner. In fact, many of their solutions cause more damage than existing practises. Green used to be my favorite color, now the word is used in EVERY commercial you see no matter what the product. Pathetic. They are scaring the children and with the help of the teachers unions robbing them of whatever joy may be left of childhood.
This is exactly why this junk-science paid for by greedy politicians should be criminal. Its one thing to care about the planet, but another thing entirely to promote bad science. I wish people would just sit back and realize WHO is actually pushing this science...its politicians. The scientists behind thenm are GOVERNMENT FUNDED for their very existance. If there is no Climate Change crisis, they HAVE NO MONEY and NO JOB. I am a climate scientist and the work that is factual actually shows we are in a much more dangerous cooling trend (after all cold weather KILLS plantlife!!! Warm weather causes it to flurish..DUH!!!) Our real fear is the possibility of another ice age, why is that? Because the cause of the cooling we are experiencing is directly related to an undeterministic level and period of solar inactivity (Violent Storms on the SUNS surface). prior to 1998 we had a marked increas in these storms which caused our warming...and now they have all but stopped..AND THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT...because WE DIDNT CAUSE any of this...and that is what is CRIMINAL about you folks pushing these scare tactics on our kids...You should be ashamed!
Looks like the far left have done a darn good job of brainwashing the children into believing the global warming farce. Very sad indeed.
The actual science doesn't back the claims made by you global warming alarmist's. We keep proving you wrong over and over and over again. So now you are resorting to the opinions of children. Man made global warming will one day go down as one of the biggest hoaxes pulled on man kind. I am glad I'm not you.
The Texas Panhandle was ravaged by fire a few years ago and the children did not flip out. Like their parents they faced it with courage and faith. The enviroment and the people are doing just fine here. Chill out.
Shame. Thanks to Boogeyman Al Gore...
Maybe its because Discovery and the History channel have programs about Armageddon on a regular basis. Of course it could be all the hype about how every thing we do is bad for the earth in someones eyes.
of course they worry when all the hypocrites like Gore tell them the planet is dying.... we breathe C02, the planet wamed and cooled before man... but some people buy into any crap.
The planet has been here for billions of years and these poor dumbed-down kids are being terrorized by people that have no real training in math and physics on subjects that they profess to know.
Hey kids the Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel, 110 story buildings don't fall into their own footprint in less than 10 seconds and there were no weapons of mass destruction ... also read my lips no new taxes, I didn't inhale, I didn't have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky and fluoride, mercury. msg and aspartame are vitamins and good for you.
http://911essentials.com is your portal to reality and suggests that you wake up and smell the coffee.
The planet has been here for billions of years and these poor dumbed-down kids are being terrorized by people that have no real training in math and physics on subjects that they profess to know.
Hey kids the Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel, 110 story buildings don't fall into their own footprint in less than 10 seconds and there were no weapons of mass destruction ... also read my lips no new taxes, I didn't inhale, I didn't have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky and fluoride, mercury. msg and aspartame are vitamins and good for you.
http://911essentials.com is your portal to reality and suggests that you wake up and smell the coffee.
They fear regardless of their parents position on the future of the earth because they are brainwashed with all that garbage in school
"Climate Change/Global Warming" is the greatest lie ever told, and when that truth becomes evident, and we tally all the harm its proponents have inflicted on our economy, or standard of living, and the trauma they have inflicted on several generations of children and weak adults, the payback is going to be hell.
So this means the one in three kids will grow up to be liberals. Because liberals seem to fear everything in the real world.
Well, yet more proof that if you feed children a steady diet of lying propaganda, you can get them to believe whatever you llike, no matter how ridiculous or untrue.
I do believe that we should do more to help conserve our resources and our planet. However, I recall growing up and teachers putting the fear of g-d/earth in us that we were heading for another ice age. Why do people have to use fear? That is what has always been used regardless of the cause and it always creates more problems that it solves.
No wonder Everything you watch on scietific channels is gloom and doom with disasters galore. And the newsies have decided if it bleeds it reads. No wonder the pubkic is scared to death.
It's good to know all your eco-propaganda lies are working on today's youth. The next generation will be very eager to give up their freedoms out of the fear you treehuggers create using nonsense and lies. 2 generations from now you eco-communist wackos will have people volunteering to commit suicide in order to stop global warming/cooling/change/whatever new lie you come up with.
what a joke why not ask them if that believe in the easter bunny
It's good to know all your eco-propaganda lies are working on today's youth. The next generation will be very eager to give up their freedoms out of the fear you treehuggers create using nonsense and lies. 2 generations from now you eco-communist wackos will have people volunteering to commit suicide in order to stop global warming/cooling/change/whatever new lie you come up with.
It's so sad that children are being abused with these fears by people trying to achieve political gain.
Well this story certainly got my attention over at the DrudgeReport. Sadly my daughter has expressed fears like this...
Sadly my daughter has expressed these very fears to me! I am surprised to see so many children share the fear(s).
And to further highlight a 10 year olds confusion she said to me last night as I was reading on my kindle... "Daddy you are wasting electricity and that is bad for the environment! You should read real books, we have plenty of trees!" Seriously...straight from the mouth of a 10 year old...
Seems like the kids are able to retain and regurgitate the Gaia worship/manmade global warming hoax propanganda...
This is what happens when the politicians lie to our children, through the school systems, in order to maneuver their thinking towards an imagined crisis. There is no global warming problem, in fact, we might be cooling. Which ever it is, humans are nothing more than a surface nuisance to mother earth. We are merely dandruff on Earth's surface.
One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse
Now where on Earth would they have gotten that idea?
Just goes to show you what 10 years of brainwashing by Enviro-statists will do. We started hearing about this stuff in the 70's only now it's everywhere. Thanks Gore.
This is not surprising. Children are susceptible to any information they are fed, even if it is B.S. They are constantly being force fed information pertaining to this global warming hoax on TV shows and commercials, schools, the government. Its the greatest hoax perpetrated on mankind. Seas will rise, hurricanes will flatten us, polar bears will drown or starve. Its all just flat wrong. Parents need to get some intelligence and figure this out so they can explain to their kids that we do need to be good stewards of the environment, but there is no climatic catastrophe coming.
If children get this fear from parents and teachers and other sources they should all be charged with child abuse. It's sickening.
In the 80s we were taught to fear a new ice age. Luckily, kids usually challenge the orthodoxy of their day at some point in college.
Apocalyptic fears have always been popular, and it is no different now.
The Hegelian Dialectic at work. It's like saying 1 child in 3 will be looking to their Oligarch for safety, and willing to pay whatever it costs.
Sorry, but I really don't care what kids think. There is a reason why adults run things and children do not. Let's make Hannah Montana the new Secretary of State. Harry Potter can be the United States' Secretary of Defense since his knowledge of defense against the dark arts is so profound.
Domestic terrorism.
You cant be serious, right? What a bunch of moonbatism! How much carbon was used writting this senseless article anyway?
The Kids are Right. We ARE headed towards a near final apocalypse. A scant few will survive, but most will be obliterated. btw, I'm NOT religious. Just reading the writing on the wall.
Parents, you need to combat these messages of eco-disaster.
Ask your kids if they want to give up their house and live in a mud hut. If they want to be forced to ride their bikes in the winter for transportation. If they never want to eat a banana or drink orange juice again because those fruits aren't grown locally. If they want to hand over their computers, video games and cell phones because they waste energy and were made from petroleum-based materials.
Explain to them that regardless of what the actors and actresses on Nickelodeon preach, they certainly do not put it to practice. (Miranda Cosgrove walking to set? I don't think so.)
They'll see the light. My boys have.
One in three children need to chill out and not worry about such things.
This is a direct result of kids being taught junk science about the environment. Especially the "Global Warming" hoax. Kids are being brainwashed & tramatized by the environmental curriculum in schools today.
Kids are worried about polar bears? They are more plentyful than they have ever been in recent times.
As more & more evidence comes out that "Global Warming" ended in 1998 I hope children will learn that adults will lie to them just for political gain & to be more suspicious of such claims in the future.
In other news, one in three children between the ages of 6 to 11 believe in santa claus. The science is now settled! The United Nations has announced a new expedition to go and capture the elusive santa claus and turn his gift making ability towards the betterment of man-kind. No longer will that racist hate-monger be able to be prejudiced against little boys and girls who have been so called "naughty" or "nice", and we can all just get along!
These kids should be put to work mowing an acre of lawn. They'll see how difficult it is to have influence on even that much land, let alone the entire planet. With all the talk of saving the planet, I don't think many people know how big the world is, or how small our part is in it. It reminds me of the man who spoke of typhoons, hurricanes, tornados -- then sneezed -- and all was better.
To students who have had it instilled into their minds by Liberal teachers......yes they probably do recite alarmist ideas, and stats produced by 60's rejects. Socialists. Public education is abysmal.... and is more a platform for personal polotics than for educating. Our schools have been on a steady decline since the start of the 20th. century.
When I was in school the tv movie " Day After Tomorrow" as about nuclear war. And of course teachers taught us that we would be mutants because of Acid Rain. And that we wouldn't have enough oxygen for the world to breathe if we cut down more rain forests.
Global Warming is not proven, cannot be proven and we should not be punished daily because of it.
UH OH, Drudge Report linked it so the sheep will follow.
Yes Enviros, how could you teach kids that the Earth is not just one giant resource machine and that it might be a good idea to take care of it.
Keep reading Drudge for the "Oh my god, it's cold in Vermont, global warming is made up.." links.
BAAAA
I spent my first three years of school doing "duck and cover," which supposedly ruined my generation. That threat is gone -- at least there really was a threat. Kids these days are hit with the "existential threat" of anthropogenic global warning far more than I ducked and covered. Then they come home and watch apocalyptic programs flogging the "existential threat" of the pre-millenial dispensationalist view of the end of the world (many of which were shown on various Discovery channels over the past two weeks). Bad science and bad religion.
Jack, don't worry about it too much. They come up with something new every ten years or so, dunno why. AGW is overdue for its departure but fading fast -- it would be fading faster if there weren't so much money in it. It's disgusting how much money can be made by frightening people, especially children -- and yes, I'm looking at you, Discovery Communications.
Congratualtions on indoctrinating and terrifying our children with utter nonsense. You must be quite proud. I remember the public school system when I was a kid trying to make us terrifed of a new ice age and a whole in the ozone caused by Aquanet hairspray. You people will just never be happy until you have stripped every ounce of joy and liberty out of everyone's lives.
I'm sure this comment will never make it, but...I guess all the money your buddies in Hollywood have spent making propaganda films is finally paying off...now you have all the little kids scared of the Earth "dying"...when you know it is impossible to kill a planet without some serious firepower all at once...I mean, several asteroids have hit this planet and it's still here...the hubris is thinking that the state of the planet NOW is the way it should always be...well, my kids know DIFFERENT! They know the planet has changed many times in it's long history and it is us who must adapt to survive...AGW is a farce and simply wrecks the economy for no real gain...why don't we focus on REAL pollution and REALLY make the air, water and soil cleaner? Naw, that might make sense...
Brainwashing the youth is immoral. Global warming is a fraud that piggybacks on the legitimate environmental movement that rightly decries pollution and shortsighted disregard for animal and plant life. Sunspot activity explains all global temperature change throughout history and the idea that man has done anything to affect the temperature on the earth is the ultimate hubris.
These children are correct. I was worried when I was a child that the environment would not be as nice to live in when I grew up and my fears came true. I remember drinking water from the lakes in Northern Minnesota. That is an impossibility today. I remember when suburban areas had dense woods and now they have given way to massive urban sprawl. The air and water is polluted, ect, ect , ect; so what kind of environment will these children grow up to live in? I would be worried if I were them.
I spent my first three years of school doing "duck and cover," which supposedly ruined my generation. That threat is gone -- at least there really was a threat. Kids these days are hit with the "existential threat" of anthropogenic global warning far more than I ducked and covered. Then they come home and watch apocalyptic programs flogging the "existential threat" of the pre-millenial dispensationalist view of the end of the world (many of which were shown on various Discovery channels over the past two weeks). Bad science and bad religion.
Jack, don't worry about it too much. They come up with something new every ten years or so, dunno why. AGW is overdue for its departure but fading fast -- it would be fading faster if there weren't so much money in it. It's disgusting how much money can be made by frightening people, especially children -- and yes, I'm looking at you, Discovery Communications.
Global warm...I mean climate change didn't start until the first cars ran on dirt roads, right? Why haven't we been required to plant our own organic gardens and recycle our cars yet? With concrete proof that man causes gobal warm...um I mean climate change I'm shocked these laws aren't in effect yet...chop chop time is running out! We only have 10...um wait...30 years before we all die!!! Uh oh, BoBo the polar bear just drowned. Hurry!
Remember this the next time some moonbat starts flapping their yap about how Republicans use fear as a political weapon.
A lot of the Drudge readers that have been linked to this page fail to remember what it was like growing up in the 50's through the 80's when our Government scared us all into believing that nuclear war was around the corner (and then pretended we could save ourselves by hiding under a desk). I was a teenager in the late 70's/ early 80s and distinctly remember being scared out of my wits that a Soviet launch of ICBMS was around the corner, as your savior President Reagan constantly reminded us of. Unfortunately, the Government failed to realize a much more real threat - the destruction of our planet through our own wasteful living. Even if the World's climate change isn't man-made, why would anyone still wish to waste our resources and pollute the air, land and sea, leaving our children with less than what we have. It's selfish, irresponsible and ignorant. You may not have voted for Obama or any Democrat, but that shouldn't make your care less about the future of our home.
Hmm, 50 years ago I'm guessing the percentage would have been more like 90. Remember duck and cover? Whole lotta good that fear did... Perhaps walking around with the idea the world is going to blow up/melt down/exceed some carbon threshold regardless of what I do as an individual breeds a sort of nihilism that only contributes to problems of the sort we're in now, nuclear, climate, etc.
If that many children are afraid of the future maybe it's time to stop the fear tactics through marketing that the world is ending.
the world, let alone, the universe, has gone through much worse than humankind and it has survived.
The crap that Gore has marketed is that and only CRAP.
Antarctica is growing in ice, not diminishing.
There is an ice age coming and we are not even close to being prepared for that because the DECEPTION is from the exact opposite direction.
The term "global warming" is more marketable than "ice age". That sounds prehistoric... wait! We are prehistoric compared to the worlds much older.
And the next ice age is supposed to last around 100,000 years.
how do we survive that? That should be the question.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist who works extensively with children. I have done so for 18 years. I routinely treat 4 to 8 children a week for various anxiety issues.
I have never had a child present with fears of an impending ecological apocalypse.
Never.
Trey
Well, first, apocalypse is from the Greek meaning "revealing." So first, the kids of the earth are afraid of "the revealing of the the earth?" I believe the word we are all looking for is "Armageddon."
And movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still and Battle for Terra help solve this problem? Aw, just give the kids some prozac and a prius - they will be ok!
These poor children. It IS ALREADY too late. For the last 28 years we have been warned that if nothing is done to stop global warming within 15 years it will be too late... Well, that time passed and thus, there is nothing we can do about global warming, except hope it comes back before the earth is destroyed by global cooling, ie, climate change. It's going to be terrible to be eaten by a polar bear in Memphis when all you wanted to do was go there and eat BBQ. Oh, alas, alas alas.
One question, though, I am not stupid. The second line in the story says "One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won't exist when they grow up." Where will they be as grown ups if the "earth won't exist?" Dang.
Indoctrination works, sadly.
With all the Global Warming mess running amuck, what do you expect.
"According to evolution, everything is supposed to be getting better." But all the government wants is to control the people. What a shame the government through education is putting the fear of
global meltdown.
Besides, I have already read the book that has the real answers. There will be more earthquakes, famines, pestilences and then the earth will burn up with Fire. But until that time there will always be a growing season on the earth.
I believe this is all part of the Agenda 21 indoctrination of our Children. Agenda 21....look it up. Most of the world ignored Zero Poulation Growth. Now the powers that be are finding that they need to resort to scare tactics. I wish however that they would find some way to impact the poverty minorities more. They tend to have the most offspring. Governments may have to stop enabling them by cutting off services that encourage them to have more dependants. I'm talking about the biggest pigs at the troff in the good old U.S. of A.
well, good job alarmist libtards. I bet you feel good you are scaring the kids with your unproven false science on all this - because you know now that you can recruit them to being even worse enviro-tards when they grow up.
You wont approve and post this - more of the facist libtard censoring. Grow up - MMGW is a myth.
You are all dead anyway so it doesn't matter anyway.
Carbon taxes are nothing but a lie created by the international bankers and their bought and paid for scienitist and media shills. You will pay your taxes directly to the bankers and if you don't you will be imprisoned or exterminated, because they think we are nothing but useless eaters that don't deserve to live. Look up in the sky people, why are they spraying us with these chemtrails? They want a global genocide to bring the population down to 500 million which means 6.2 billion need to be exterminated. I know it sounds nuts but these are the words on the Georgia Guide Stones.
Although these findings are interesting, there are a couple of things that concern me: 1) The surveys were conducted over the phone. How accurate can a survey be if it was conducted over the phone with kids that are pre-teen and younger?
2) The survey field is not big enough. There were only 500 kids interviewed, and then they were further broken down by age, sex, and geographic location. To have a legit study there needs to be more subjects.
Typical Libs, scaring the crap out of kids to further their ridiculous agenda. How about admitting that climate change is inevitable, and not a bad thing - we need to adapt to it, not hide from it. All the negative hype, faulty science and scare tactics don't help us in this endeavor. Stop lying about global warming!
This man-made global warming crap is mental child abuse...
Too many zombie movies and leftist propaganda.
Way to brainwash your kids to be victims!
You enviromentalists amaze me with your ignorance
This poll doesn't mean much:
“Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.”
"This is very interesting data. Do you think the reason for more minority children fearing the destruction of eath is a result of lack of credible information in urban areas?"
Yes - that is surprising!
Urban areas are shit holes to begin with. If they think it will get worse than the filth they live in - then that is very bad !!!
Welcome to the indoctrination machine.
You will be assimilated.
Indoctrination works, sadly.
I am always a little suspicious of survey results as as these. I often wonder if the questions are slanted to increase the chances of eliciting an response consistent with the agenda of the author of the survey. For this reason, I would like to see the actual questions posed along with the statistics and answers.
As I consider it child abuse to tell a child they will burn in hell for not changing their sinful ways, I thinks this falls into the same category. Anytime you try to get a child into line by scaring them, its abuse. yes the earth is warming and yes we are pushing that with our actions, but what deceptive propaganda campaign has these kids beleiving that through this moderate and slow change, the earth will be gone or a much worse place in their life time.
Chris Hitchens is right when he points out that the green movement is in the early stages of a religion. This story just goes to prove this. we all have original sin, our mere existence. For too long we have lived in sin, and pushed the world and humanity to a breaking point, but alas we have hope. Be it Jesus, or Al Gore and his carbon credit scheme, which would make him obscenely rich, we have a savior, someone to lead us away from our sinful ways. But this requires a massive life style change, once again, as in religion, a change except for those at the top of such a movement. And just maybe, if we scare our children enough into this mindset, we can pull back from the brink of annihilation. Only with the green movement the extremists have taken something noble, a desire to live more moderately and more in harmony with our surroundings, and used it just as the religious right has used Christianity, as a club with which to force their radical agendas on all of us through our elected officials.
"There's a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn't imaginary "???? Its entirely imaginary! What they should worry about is the politicians making their country a much worse place to live.
It's no surprise.....you kooks have them thinking their hair is going to burst into flames if they play outside on a sunny day.
How many of them are on Prozac and fear the Mail Man?
Do the math...1 in 3 parent are probably Liberals who's kids will probably OD on drugs before they are 18..**f are they worried about?
When I was a kid,I was afraid of Johnny who lived in my closet,I never saw Johnny..BUT HE WAS IN THERE!!
I'm sure this unbiased poll was scientifically administered in earth science classes across the nation and overseen by tree hugging, global warming indoctrinating teachers to be sure the results came out exactly the way they were intended.
This is only a reflection of what they get drummed into their heads at school, earth day and save the planet hour.
No Child has enough information to make a judgment about the future of the earth. They do not have enough intuition to know real information from propaganda.
Further, I believe that the poor who live is squalor, and those who live in cramped cities will have a far more pessimistic view of the world than people who live in middle America.
On this subject, Ignore the kids opinions.
The study is stupid.
Further evidence that a majority of kids are dumb as a result of ignorant parents. This fear mongering by dolts like Al Gore on the left is laugh out loud funny. The schools are obviously at fault as well. Critical thinking, statistics, and basic scientific methodology wasn't learned by these dopey liberals and soon their kids will be looking for more government hand holding. A very pathetic ilk indeed!
I'm sure this unbiased poll was scientifically administered in earth science classes across the nation and overseen by tree hugging, global warming indoctrinating teachers to be sure the results came out exactly the way they were intended.
Is this survey, and article, simply more propaganda to push an agenda? First, I think it is weak to use children to attempt to gain sympathy for an agenda that may not be popular otherwise. Second, some of the words that are utilized in the report, like 'fear', may not be accurate to how a child may truly feel about the issues. Third, children have often feared for the future for multiple reasons for millennia, and yet the planet still exists and life has improved. Fourth, this reveals the amount of unbalanced propaganda that is taught to our children in schools and from biased media sources. Of course we need to have concern for the planet and its well being but we should guard against unwarranted scare tactics and attempts to strike 'fear' into the hearts of our children.
This is something I've been warning against for years. Nothing is worse than robbing children of their birthright to have a worry free existence and the chance to be just a kid. This notion has been destroyed by the fear mongers, Al Gore and Co. as well as all the other "the sky is falling" profiteers. It is reprehensible and only irresponsible and selfish adults will think this is a "good" thing for children to believe they will die because of their "irresponsibility" towards the environment. I truly believe that the same recognition could be applied without leading children to have nightmares and to believe that there will be NO world for them to be adults in. Shameful disregard for human life, freedom and a point for the self-loathing crowds who only preach doom and gloom and care not for children, old folks and or kittens and puppies over their own failed egos.
Grow up and care for the children with confidence and give them hope... not nightmares.
Shameful.
Pretty soon, the only people that believe this stuff will be indoctrinated children. Has anyone bothered to pay attention to the discrepancy between the climate models and actual observation over the last decade, ICE levels that are at or near 30 year highs (both Arctic Circles combined), or the that Al Gore removed another slide from his show after nearly every snowstorm this winter?
Actually, the science behind climate change is well-established:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
Unfortunately, there's plenty of hysteria on both sides, as these comments illustrate. What's needed is a calm, clear, even-handed approach that gives our kids a realistic view of the problem, not dread of an apocalypse.
I believe the schools should focus on solutions. The antidote to panic is to take constructive action, and this approach is tailor-made for young people.
Get them to do something. Recycling, gardening, conservation, anything. It'll be good for them, good us, good for the world.
Fear of Global Warming as replaced the fear of the God of Abraham. Global Warming- it's the New Religion.
My kids (ages 17, 15, and 12) don't buy into this "global warming" crap any more than I do.
While many of their contemporaries are hiding in closets worried about their futures (thanks, Al Gore), my kids will be enjoying life and studying to be productive and successful adults (much like I ignored the "coming ice age" alarmists when I was a kid in the seventies). It's all a big shakedown!
Dr Allison said there was not any evidence of significant change in the mass of ice shelves in east Antarctica nor any indication that its ice cap was melting. "The only significant calvings in Antarctica have been in the west," he said. And he cautioned that calvings of the magnitude seen recently in west Antarctica might not be unusual.
This is scary suff...to put fear in the hearts of children and stupid adults who believe this junk Al Gore science.
Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom.
Stop the Insanity...tell your children there is no Global Warming...and Obama is not God.
Amazing. This is sort of like scaring kids with religion, like they'll go to hell if they don;t believe or don't behave ---- and all of that rubbish. Man-made global warming theory is a dangerous fad which diverts attention and investment from really important things like clean air and clean water and new and improved fuel sources, to the fantasyland acpocalypse of the ecofreaks and enviromaniacs and all the brainwashed, droolling, googley-eyed loonytoons who follow them around with microphones and cameras..
IF kids are truly fearing an impending "Earth Apocalypse", its because grown adults with a political agenda are purposely indoctrinating them by using emotionally traumatic scare tactics.
Reminds me of when Martin Sheen said his kids were scared to death of nuclear weapons. Any guess as to what Sheen had been telling his kids about nukes and how the bad, bad Ronald Reagan was going to get them incinerated?
Left-wingers willing sacrafice their children's mental well being to promote false agendas in order to have their kids carry on those agendas after they grow up to be hand-wringing, bed wetting emotional wrecks.
This is a surprise? Education has been replaced by indoctrination in most classes in schools. Schools now exist to sow a crop of guilt, fear and rage among the kids. Once that harvest truly comes in, we will be well fitted for servitude. The real surprise is that parents keep sending their kids to public schools.
The best book written about the environmentalist movement was published in the 1840s. "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds".
This survey is a scam. It sounds like the very one that my 9 year old son took a few weeks ago. I was on the other end of the phone, (because I didn't know the people surveying and wanted to monitor the content). The survey was greatly flawed and biased. For instance one of the questions asked what you were most afraid of and the surveyor gave 3 choices. Global warming, air and water pollution, and a 3rd equally as dire but which I can't recall. My son hesitated and finally said air and water pollution. At the end of the survey, I asked why there wasn't a choice for "none of the above" and she said he certainly could have said that. Having a research background myself, I reminded her that very few s when given a choice of 3 multiple choice answers are only going to give those answers, much less a 9 year old child. At the end, my son laughed and said he wasn't afraid of any of those things, but that wasn't one of the choices.
I now know first hand how easy it is to design a survey to give only the results the surveyer wants it to give.
So what if they're scared about hypothetical disasters that may or may not happen?
Though we certainly didn't know it at the time, I grew up in the waning years of the Cold War. A time when we all took it for granted that we could be vaporized with less than 30 minutes notice. The missiles and bombs were very real and so was the threat.
Make no mistake global change is real and manmade. Unless the previous statement is true, how will the government collect carbon taxes?
Governments on all levels are desperate for tax money and the carbon tax is perfect. It will be hidden in everything that is made or transported or used.
Therefore, it is totally necessary that it exist. Governments are depending on it for a new supply of taxes.
Actual science no longer matters. If it snows 24" in Miami, it will be because man did something and if enough taxes can be collected, government will have the money to cure it.......
They told us that we would be using the metric system. Spent two years yards into meters. It never happened just like global warming.
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Overpopulation...coming ice age...resource depletion...rain deforestation...etc. These were the topics I learned as "fact" when I was in school. I had to educate myself to replace the public school indoctrination. Some things will never change.
my kid understands how the earth needs to be treated. simple as that. no fear needed...why put pressure on the kids because of something WE did? that's stupid! let them have their childhood and they'll have to face up to this mess later on in life. meanwhile, WE need to stop being selfish slugs and fix things.
Of course they are worried. Global Warming alarmist and eco-whackos have been scaring them for over a decade now. It is pathetic really.
Oh yes it IS imaginary and just guess WHO is responsible for scaring these little innocent kids? - THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS! In fact it has been COOLER since 1998 which is OPPOSITE to the flawed IPCC computer model projections, ( http://icecap.us/images/uploads/7YRTEMPSSPPI.jpg ), and those computer projections were the ONLY, (I repeat ... ONLY), 'scientific' 'proof' that alarmists ever had attempting to tie human activity to global warming. If you do not think so then NAME WHAT ELSE was ever purported to link global warming to humans? The TRUE scientific consensus is that the sun and our orbit along with ocean current oscillations, specifically, the PDO and the AMO correlate incredibly well with US temperature as seen here http://icecap.us/images/uploads/EASTERBROOKPDO.JPG
In stark contrast and contrary to the opinion of a constantly dwindling number of die-hard climate alarmists, a correlation of temperature to CO2 is virtually NON EXISTENT! On top of that, the people who desperately attempted to blame CO2 doctored the data record concerning CO2 concentrations during the 1800's - they LOW BALLED almost all the data! James Hansen was caught red handed more than once doctoring the GISS to suit his agenda as well.
Call it what it is - BS!!! SCAM!!! POLITICAL GARBAGE!! Anything you wish but do NOT call it 'science' and stop scaring little children as though they thought the world is going to end as I did when I was a little kid when the threat of a nuclear holocaust was oh so very very REAL.
Without CO2 we would all be DEAD! So HOW MUCH is the 'correct' amount? Will the alarmists even DARE to answer that question to give us a target to shoot for? OF COURSE NOT! These PARASITES want to MILK tax payers as long as they possibly can sucking on 5 BILLION dollars of government spending/grants each year to 'study' 'the problem'. Yeah, Fred Singer received a ONE TIME $30K speaking honorarium from the Petrol Institute. Al Gore made over $200 MILLION on this scam, Hansen makes a six figure salary, the nitwits at the UN are raking it in... but Fred is obviously in it only for the money and shouldn't be trusted!
Consensus ? What about THESE PEOPLE? HMMM?
http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/alternate_version.html
No surprise. Gore with the rest of the Crisis Creation troops, intentionally targeted the youth with a fear campaign. Eco-Facisim with a smiling face. What good can come out of this? We need scientists and engineers who can analyze problems and solve them - not a generation of quivering children brainwashed that the political graft of cap-n-trade will rescue them from their storybook crisis.
I bet they're swinging from the trees over this stuff. great, lets turn our kids into psychotic little global warming nut cases.
Kids worrying about global warming. They sound surprised, that it's not because of the parents actions, like belonging to a group. Hell, they're getting this shit hammered into their little brains in school!! ALL day long! They're shown a film of polar bears, doing what polar bears do, (bears on ice) and told they're is no more ice for them and they're all dying, and they're scared crazy! No wonder!
Pretty sad state of affairs, when they "target" kids like that. But it'll backfire on them. They're scared to death right now they planet won't exist for them when they get older. But once they do get older, and see there's no real change, maybe even gotten colder, they'll realize that it's all a big lie. And they'll turn away from it.
Liberals, I hate them. And you people are praising what has happened here. You're sick. DId you also think it was great when that kid in the UK died because he thought there wasn't enough water for the planet?? Why not? That's even one less kid to worry about also!
What's the difference between this and the communist brainwashing they did in the '60's? Nothing, and you're loving it. Gee, I wonder why you little pinko commies.
Wake up!! It has NOT gotten warmer!! idiots.
I think it's high time reasonable people put a stop to the incessant scare-mongering by politicians and their lap-dog media, BY CHARGING AND CONVICTING THEM OF FRAUD! Al Gore, Obama, Bush and other alarmists on everything from the environment, the economy, terrorism, narcotics, etc., are dangerous frauds intent on robbing whole economies of trillions. This has got to stop! There are serious issues to deal with like clean water and air, public debt and currency devaluation and no, THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT SOLVE THEM! Free markets, full property rights, and sound money are real solutions. I grew up fearing the nuclear bomb and the population bomb, or so I was told. WHERE ARE THEY? Labor shortages are what we'll face instead, jeese.
with ALL the HYSTERIA from ALGORE and his ilk why wouldn't they...
the earth is fine, it's all the idiots talking FOOLISHNESS, that is what is the problem
As long as these kids try to do the change themselves, such as going to college and doing great scientific work to get things changed, then that would be great. The last thing we need, is another bratty generation banging on the doors of government to solve our problems.
WOW!!!! That's a lot of brain washed kids.
When our government runs out of things to tax. they invent some new terror to drum up additional funds. What a wonderful way to get the next generation to pay for the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security for all of us aging boomers. We "empower" them to save the earth by buying energy credits. Ironic (or maybe not mere coincidence) that politicians present and former are invested in these schemes.
This article is about kids 6 - 11. Uh, seriously, what do such kids know except what they have been told to say?
Further, who cares about the opinions of children on such subjects anyway? If you are a parent, you know they have nothing to add to issues of environmental policy. Fact is that the majority of adults have little or nothing to add to this discussion.
It is noteworthy that nearly half have not been brainwashed yet. Perhaps these are kids that already have a religion?
The conservative nut cases are winning the information war above, but unfortunately it's not consistent with the truth.
While kids growing up with an apocalyptic mindset is not psychologically heatlhy, avid concern to improve our environment is encouraging.
To those who share my concern for the health of this planet, I'm sorry the above article got linked to Drudge. Don't let the overwhelming backlash swamp your spirits from keeping up the important fight of working to improve Mother Earth.
This is crazy. Anyone who has grown up in the last 50-100 years has been pounded with end of world propaganda of some sort. I grew up fearing nuclear annihilation, was it any less of a fear? Did we get rid of nuke weapons? Its for political gain to keep us all in fear but soon the fear wears off and the establishment needs a new fear to keep the sheeple confused and fearful.
Kids, enjoy your youth, dont let the adults rob you of that trying to make you fearful.
Antarctic ice is actually growing, the ozone hole is shrinking, the earth is cooling. Return to your lives, nothing to see here.
Global Apocalypse due to man made occurrences... I'm sure God will bring the Apocalypse before we could even think of being that powerful. This article lacks merit and credibility. What a bunch of winners that believe this drivel. Get God and Get wise.
We need to do a better job of protecting children from the global warming kooks!
Their cruelty is inexcusable.
Yes, kids are afraid these days -- and unfortunately, fear is usually the only way to inspire action -- so this is a GOOD thing. Maybe these kids will turn us around. And it's not only the liberals who fear, guys...what do you think led to torture of detainees, domestic surveillance, and the current non-wars we're fighting? It sure wasn't happiness.
Thanks enviromaniacs for terrifying the children of the world.. about.. hmm what is it this week.. global warming.. global cooling.. drowning in the rising oceans.. starvation.. lack of water... what a joke!
When I was in grade school during the 1960's, the teachers were pushing "ecology." It was the first stab by the enviros to control the thought process of kids with scare tactics. They had yellow and green flags with an e logo on them that looked really cool, back then.
By the time I was in high school, the enviro-scientists were pushing "global cooling" scare tactics when we were having heavy snows in winter. However that didn't go anywhere. So now they're pushing "global warming" as their newest fear in an attempt to manipulate/control the population, even making people pay for breathing air with cap and trade.
The enviros really need to relax and enjoy their time on the planet, instead of fearing it.
Oh give me a break, even as a kid when I "worried" about nuclear war, it didn't take long for that worry to be replaced by if I was pretty enough, smart enough, Black enough and a host of other things. Preteens may worry about the fate of the world but they also worry about normal preteen stuff so let's stop acting like they are paralyzed with fear over here. It is utter nonsense.
How incredibly sad. We have made great strides in cleaning up the atmosphere and protecting the earth, and these poor brainwashed children live in fear of an imaginary beast.
Shame on the so called adults out there who foster this atmosphere of fear just to generate publicity and grant money.
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
You all have such big egos.
The Earth will go on without you, what you are afraid of is destroying yourselves. And even that should not been seen as a bad thing. All things come and go in cycles as our tribal mothers and fathers knew long ago.
So it will be with us, and into eternity.
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
And fear itself, is a waste of time and energy.
we had the same thing when i was a kid...its called the boogey man...dumb liberals are to blame for this unethical nonsense....dumb parents equal scared children..false information goes hand in hand with fascist liberalism..I will enjoy it while I make fun of them as they get older and dumber..the dumb will always go punished in my book.
Kids should not be terrified that the planet is going to be destroyed! This shows how the media focuses only on the bad because fear sales just as much as sex does these days. Kids need to know about the planets problems but we need to educate not scare!
That's great! We've finally frightened the children.
Now we need to figure out how to turn this into an opportunity to raise government spending.
The Stinky Muslim illegitimate president is what scares them.
Take the politics and government grant money away from science and watch all the data change.
Learning Big People Lie
In the 40's it was Hitler and Tojo. In the 50's it was Stalin and Mao. In the 60's it was Krushev and Castro. In the 70's it was Jimmy Carter and Disco. In the 80's it was China and Communism. In the 90's it was Global Warming now it is Climate Change and all of it was BS from beginning to end.
The kids will survive in spite of us not because of us.
This is borderline child abuse. These poor kids have been robbed of their present day joy and are probably going to be scarred for life because of the "climate change" hoax. They should have more to fear of Obama and what his policies will do to them financially and national security wise. Those are real problems, not the junk science that is global warming.
FOR ALL OF YOU THAT STILL LOVE YOUR CHILDREN...
Please ask them what they are learning in school everyday and show them the truth to combat the brainwashing they get.
HOW RIDICULOUS.
A real apocolypse where the forces of their savior, Teh Baby Jesus Christ and the evil Satan do battle on the earth over the possession of human souls to bring about the end of the world is FAR more reasonable and sensible.
The earth is a few billion years old but the thermometer is only 4 or 7 hundred years old. How arrogant of these Gore junkies to intimate that exhaling co2 is melting the polar caps.
Fear and terror are such wonderful motivators, aren't they ? It's so simple: scare the children who, in turn, guilt the witless parents. It's so telling that the same people who exploit kids for nothing less than "progressive" social engineering and political gain are the same one's who arrogantly mock genuine concerns over the reality of global terrorism.
This saddens me on several fronts:
First IF, the poll is accurate, and that is a big IF... then our children have been fed a bunch of hog wash..
I have five children and I work hard to teach them the importance of taking care of what we have been given..including this beautiful planet..but the environmentalist has taken it WAY too far..
It is sad that FEAR is being used to SCARE our children into compliance with ideas that will in the long run hurt them and their children's futures.
It's about control...your rights are no longer yours anymore..it's about the greater community..OH where have I seen that before...oh yeah visiting the grey gloom and doom communist Russia just before it went belly up in 1987...Get a clue people
Eh, the Earth'll still be here. We just may not be. It could certainly become uninhabitable for us.
Yes, the Earth and warmed and cooled before, and we and everything else evolves, etc. HOWEVER, the rates of change are much higher this time, and evolution takes many many generations, not 50 years.
Why do you think Doctor Who and Firefly always reference Earth That Was, and how everyone had to evacuate Earth and terraform other planets to have somewhere to live?
We need to believe in the Lord Jesus. He is coming back and he will renew the face of the whole earth and reign for 1000 years before creating a new heaven and earth. If kids knew Jesus as their savior they wouldn't fear the future because they would have confidence in who holds the future. Not only would they not fear the future of this world but they wouldn't fear death either. Let us as adults believe in him and teach our children to do the same. Then we can have a deep peace regardless of the current circumstances and have a basis from which to make sound decisions in life.
It is a shame that the quality and content of our public education system is sub-standard. I had to pull my kids out of the system when they (1st and 3rd graders) came home both crying because they thought they were going to die from aids. Home schooling requires perseverance but the results are more satisfying and the kids are not traumatized. Of recent years I did give up on the Discovery and History channels for the same reasons. I'll probably teach my grand children when they're ready. It's what has to be done for the future of the country.
Gee i wonder if it was due to indoctrination from thier schools?
Great News.
The propaganda is working.
It will be easy to get these kids to give us all their money and their parents money.
Then we can kill most of these morons off to save the Earth for the truly deserving like Gore, Obama and me.
Great News.
Too bad real science is swept under the rug in favor of the junk science that Al Gore and the watermelon left are peddling. What a travesty. Poor kids. Anyone pushing this nonsense should be ashamed. Worst of all, "Let's do it for the children." is a favorite mantra of these creeps.
There's no separation of church and state, a favorite of the left, when it comes to the church of climatology. It is a religion, not science.
SO NICE TO SEE YOU ENVIROWEINIES ARE NOW SCARING THE CHILDREN. yOU CAN BET YOUR PEA BRAINS, MY DAUGHTER ISN'T WORRIED ABOUT THE PLANETS SURVIVAL. ALL SHE IS WORRIED ABOUT IS OUR COUNTRYS SURVIVAL. tHANKS TO IDIOTS LIKE YOU , WHO BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING. AND VOTE FOR SOCIALISTS.
Funny! I continualy tell the children around me that they are sinners and will burn in hell if they don't follow the word of God. Oddly enough' in a recent survey of these children I learned that they most fear the devil. I sure feel satisfied!
The results of this poll only show that children are reacting to a daily onslaught of hysterical propaganda, and the adults that are spewing this garbage should be ashamed of themselves.
When I was a kid, a similar poll taken by the same the same type of people and no doubt for the same reason , showed that kids were terrified of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Adults, please stop using children for your own selfish needs. This global warming garbage has become a cult, and everyone knows religion has to hook 'em when they're young. Otherwise, only weak-minded people will fall for it.
Well..At least my kids see through the B.S. Glad we took them out of government schools & let them learn in a more responsible setting. Too bad the schools are turning out dummed down students that can't do basic math or write a sentence. Oh Well....At least they know about homosexuality and oral sex & can hug a tree at the same time. Can't get by without those three topics under yer belt....LOL
Believing that prudent policies require a well-informed citizenry—one well versed in the facts—we sought, with the help of survey research conducted by Zogby Associates, to determine what Americans believe about energy and environmental issues and the extent of their knowledge. Building on similar research from 2006, we report here on the January 2009 responses of 1,000 Americans, chosen to be representative of public opinion generally, on matters such as the sources of U.S. energy, the extent of the oil supply, the rate of global warming, the safety of nuclear power, and the promise of renewable energy sources.
The survey found that the views that many Americans hold about a wide range of these issues remain, in key ways, inaccurate. For example:
Forty-nine percent of respondents believe Saudi Arabia exports the most oil to the U.S., while just 13% correctly identified Canada as our top foreign supplier. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. imported 58.2% of its petroleum (including crude oil) in 2007, but only 16.1% of all imports came from Persian Gulf countries.
More than 67% believe we can meet future energy demand through conservation and efficiency. Historically, in contrast, energy demand actually increases alongside efficiency gains. And because energy use is not static, conservation leads to only marginal reductions in demand. The EIA projects global energy consumption to increase 50% from 2005 to 2030 and U.S. energy use to increase 11.2% from 2007 to 2030.
Just 37% correctly answered that no one has ever died from the actual generation of nuclear power in the U.S. Though the U.S. has not built a nuclear-power reactor since the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979, 104 active reactors safely generate roughly one-fifth of our nation’s electricity.
Sixty-three percent of those surveyed believe that human activity is the greatest source of greenhouse gases. In fact, such emissions are significantly smaller than natural emissions. The burning of fossil fuels is responsible for just 3.27% of the carbon dioxide that enters the atmosphere each year, while the biosphere and oceans account for 55.28% and 41.46%, respectively.
Less than 28% correctly believe that U.S. air quality has improved since 1970. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the six most common air pollutants have decreased by more than 50%; air toxins from large industrial sources have fallen nearly 70%; new cars are more than 90% cleaner, in terms of their emissions; and production of most ozone-depleting chemicals has ceased. These reductions have occurred despite the fact that during the same period, gross domestic product tripled, energy consumption increased 50%, and motor vehicle use increased almost 200%.
There have been some notable changes since our 2006 survey. Americans are more likely to believe that spent nuclear fuel can be stored safely and that offshore oil drilling can be conducted in an environmentally sensitive manner. Half of those surveyed feel spent nuclear fuel can be safely stored, while 64% of respondents favor expanded offshore drilling. As policymakers call for increased energy independence, it is noteworthy that a large portion of the public is favorable toward abundant domestic energy sources that could lessen our reliance on foreign oil.
Additionally, considering the momentum behind renewable energies and carbon-emission regulation, it is noteworthy that almost half of respondents believe renewable-energy sources will not replace fossil fuels and uranium any time soon—91% of our electricity is generated by fossil fuels and uranium and the EIA projects that 85% of our electricity in 2030 will be generated by such fuels—and that a plurality (49%) do not think reducing carbon emissions will be simple or inexpensive. Given the significant push for greater use of renewable energies and alternative fuels and repeated warnings about mankind’s impact on the global climate, policymakers must be guided by, and Americans deserve to know, the realities of meeting energy demand and the true costs of “going green.”
Energy & the Environment: Myths & Facts is intended as a primer for educators, journalists, and public officials—for concerned citizens generally—as we seek twin goals: an energy supply sufficient to fuel continued economic growth and environmental policies that will protect public health and the quality of our lives.
Taxing American consumers for global weather change is akin to charging a fee to homeowners with flower gardens every time it rains.
This just in: Children are dumb.
I'm sure 80%+ of them believe in Santa Clause as well. Doesn't make it true. I'm not knocking the idea that our enivorment is at risk, just the idea that a child's opinion on this sort of matter is in any way, shape or form relevant.
It would have been nice to have a link to the full results of the survey for completeness, so we can see how the questions were phrased.
Congrats to the goofy liberal educational system. Now we are scaring our children with all the scam and hoax of global warming and all the other money making schemes dreamed up by the far left.
CONGRATS!!!
I just asked my 10 year old son if he was concerned and he asked me, " are you freaking serious?"
The failure of public schools to educate our children has been reduced to scaring them with misinformation about the phoney global warming pseudo science. Children need to understand that Jesus Christ will come first before the true global warming will take place when God creates a new heaven and earth as He promised for all that accept Jesus Christ as Savior. To paraphrase a scripture - what do you gain if you taxed every cow, stopped all farming to prevent c02 and saved every Polar bear and yet lost your soul and ended up experiencing your eternal soul set on fire hell's fire? Ask Jesus Christ right now to forgive your sins and to save your soul for heaven above and to be spared hell's global warming fires. I wonder how high the taxes will need to be raised to try to put the fires of hell out?
Wonderful..The left wing environuts have now added child abuse to their list of violations against humanity. This myth of man made global warming is approaching the idiocy of the flat earth society. Sure there is weather change. Weather always changes. Show me the time when it's been the exact temperature on the same day for years in a row. You can't because it's never happened. Weather always changes because the earth always changes. Always has...always will. And there is absolutely no provable, reliable scientific proof that it could be caused by man. But go ahead...ignore facts..ignore nature...scare the kids. If you really want to find out who's behind this...follow the money. Al Gore's made a fortune from his scare tactics...so have others.
Hardly shocking that children raised by environmental-apocalypse-now ritualistic-recycling narcissists are the most frightened ones. Why refrain from politicizing the kids instead of teaching them, when the ends justify the means? The global warming (oops, sorry, "climate change") Trojan horse is merely a more recent manifestation of the leftist passion for control.
This is what happens when the LEFT educates our kids.
It scares them into believing any BS they throw at them.
Please, lefty-wackos... leave our kids alone AT LEAST until they're in high school or college.
I know it helps to indoctrinate them when they are young... but do you see what it does to them?
Were you indoctrinated when you were a kid? No? You turned out OK, no?
Then let these kids be kids. Indoctrination attempts should not be allowed until they are old enough to know that there is BS in the world... and can actually decide for themselves.
You hate religious people telling their kids that the Earth is 4,000 years old, right? You're doing the same thing.
Wasn't it warmer in the middle ages?
Oh yeah... it was. I guess Haliburton was to blame.
When it was cold, it was called the dark ages.
Funny how the warming in the middle ages was "natural", but it's not natural now.
Brrrrrr.... still colder than 1998!
Someone should tell ALGORACLE to stop giving speeches and holding rallies in Winter. Having to postpone them because of record blizzards and snowstorms isn't good brainwashing policy.
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Kids who will read the Bible will find out the truth that an apocalypse is coming but by the hand of God...
When I was young I lived in the country in the 1950s had pretty good childhood, but I also experienced a lot of fear. My parents dying and nuclear attack were naturals, but I also was interested in dinosaurs. I was truly scared by big dinosaur skeletons in the Denver Museum of Natural History and had to be taken out by going down a back stairway. I remember being afraid that the dinosaurs had come to life and were following us down the stairs.
I also remember a dream where a Tyrannosaurus Rex came across a field, across the fence, and through my aunt's garden.
Bottom line is part of childhood is fear of abandonment, things you hear about in the news, and the unknown. There are a lot of unknowns in childhood and a lot of the fears are irrational.
The drudgies strike.
You people don't get it at all do you? The kids aren't scared by any "Global Warming" hype.
How much "Global Warming" hype do you think they hear?
Think people. Kids are scared because of the actions of the adults around them. Plain and simple. Kids are smart enough to see what is happening around them.
This dose of reality is over, now you can get back to your political mudslinging.
I'm glad to see this getting some attention. I also grew up feariing for the fate of humanity, due to public school indoctrination. I feared water and air pollution, overpopulation, and nuclear fallout! Kids can't really do anything about it anyway, and they can't process that type of information the same way adults can! My daughter saw Gore's global warming movie 3 times during high school, and my younger kids are going to a charter school instead.
Well, after getting my degree in geology and working as a geologist for years, I can say that the Global Warming scare is just that - a politically motivated scare tactic to gain control over populations, over land, over money, over power, over valuable industries & commodities.
There is no concrete evidence what-so-ever of man caused global warming. In fact, the Earth is currently, and has been cooling for about 10 years. What is more, geologically speaking, the Earth has had cyclical warming/cooling periods for hundreds, thousands, millions, & billions of years. That is what is natural and it cannot be controlled or influenced significantly by man. I do keep up with current papers and studies on the supposed GW/CC subject too.
Sunspots and vacillations in the degree of the Earth’s tilt also impact these warming/cooling periods; again influences much more powerful, more meaningful, and more significant that anything man could ever throw into the Earth’s atmosphere.
The accelerated chatter, alarmist claims, and “doomsday predictions” by the eco-crowd about Global Warming, which was recently renamed “Climate Change” for marketing purposes because people were not “buying the GW label”, is really just aggressive fear mongering and is all done for control & power over people. Don’t kid yourselves that it is not.
There is value in limiting pollution of our drinking water, our soils, or our air; what I am saying is this cataclysmic fear-mongering about Global Warming/Climate Change is what is not real.
There are myriad scientists (thousands) that refute the very poor “science” and so-called “models” that Al Gore and his nut job buddies are touting.
The mainstream media doesn’t report on the many, many papers and conferences refuting the pseudo-science on GW/CC. For the majority of the media, it just isn’t “sexy enough”, that is, it doesn’t sell nearly as well as the “Earth is going to Die claims”.
Moreover, most of the pseudo-science the alarmists tout is not proven, nor is there scientific consensus as they claim and desperately would like you to believe. And for those that don’t know, science is not a discipline based on consensus, either, nor should it be. Science is information based upon fact, not upon conjecture, nor on supposition.
Another thing, CO2 is NOT a pollutant! CO2 is photosynthetic plant food. They are selling you a bill of goods about CO2 for their Cap & Trade scheme coming into play in the near future. That folks is worth trillions plus!
Now let me think, where else have we recently seen all kinds of disinformation and scare tactics to pass all kinds of legislation that normally would NEVER be passed….ahhh, yes, it comes to me now, anybody hear of any trillion dollar bailouts? Uh huh.
Did Congressional members read the bills in that legislation in Congress before it was rammed down the public’s throats to know what they were even voting on? No.
Another classic case of fear-mongering to rush legislation through that should not have been rushed through. Don’t let them do it to us all over again with Cap & Trade, that scheme is a monumental power grab world-wide.
There's something inherently sad and childish about a bunch of conservatives swarming to a site called TREEHUGGER and acting so appalled about the content they find. Seriously, what the heck were you expecting?
If you disagree so strongly, you can always go to another website. It's not like anyone's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to read articles you disagree with and post outrageous, paranoid comments about the content.
I had the bejeebers scared out of me thrice while going through school. First was the nuclear Armagedden caused by the Soviets in the early 60's, then the world was going to be overrun by people because of overpopulation in the late 60's - early 70's (a scare making a comeback, btw.) The last big scare I fell for was Global Cooling when I was in college in the 70's. The whole planet would freeze over into one big snowball in space.
Of course, none of it came to pass and never will, but childhood anxiety is forever. Let's stop scaring the kids. Disney and Mother Goose have been scaring the cr*p out kids for years and are quite good at it.
God is going to destroy the earth with fire in 2011, and hybrids, and compact fluorescents aren't gonna help. Isn't it strange that the mark ot the beast is 666? thats 2/3, interesting that 1/3 can see the possibility of an apocalyptal event? Wars, rumors of wars, distress of nations with perplexity, rebirth of lthe nation of Israel in our generation? Go to Family Radio / Open Forum streaming live audio for more info.
>This is great news! If today's children have some fear
>about losing their earth then they will be the ones to save it...
It's terrible news that we're causing anxiety in your children--they can't do anything about it. And when they grow up and see it's all been a scam, who knows...
All I can say is thanks a lot for raising another generation of anxiety ridden kids. I've wasted a good portion of my life expecting the world to end for naught. A heartfelt "fuck you all" for working on our fears (inadvertently or not) and spoiling our childhood.
> How much "Global Warming" hype do you think they hear?
You are kidding right? GM is running national TV ad's and I just got a 'green' advertisement from Walmart. What started as socialist propoganda is now accepted as truth by our government and is scaring the crap out of our kids. And of course, there are many who think this is just 'great'!
We will not survive with liberalism as the national religion. Vote conservative!!!
There's no way 95% of these kids parents recycle. If they lied on this question, who knows what these "kids" really think. Kids will say what they think you want to hear. Anyway, they have nothing to worry about. Robots will kill us all.
They are being fed the wrong fears
Of all the ways the planet can get messed up, CO2 and AGW are not among them.
Oversized CMEs, Asteroids, Super Volcanoes, or event just an Ice Age resulting from a prolonged slowdown in solar activity, are all far more plausible.
If your looking for a Man made option then: Nukes, a man made super virus, or a runaway nano-assembly replication are grater cause for concern.
The arctic and antarctic are both growing (not shrinking), and have been for years.
The east antarctic is growing 5 times faster (by actual volume) than the west antarctic has shrunk.
The polar bares and seals are both doing quite well.
Solar activity has slowed down; and, is expected to stay slow for, perhaps, up to 50 years. We have been, and are continuing to experience, a global cooling period. The old farmers alminac has correctly predicted this turn of events. The IPCC editors, Mr Hanson, and AlGore have not.
The only things endangered by man made CO2 are our wallets - and that's not from the smoke stacks; but, the mouths of the politicians cramming cap & trade down the world's throat.
The earth is a closed ecosystem (nothing gets in – except weightless sunlight and some meteoric dust; and nothing gets out – except some satellite debris)
Ecosystems are generally stable, but the earth has a tumultuous, periodic (but quite natural) ‘correction’ that occurs every thirteen thousand years: the poles build up two trillion and eighty billion tons of ice which moves, along with the entire crust, to the equator..
The common explanation for the geography of the Antarctic land mass is that ‘it was once part of another land mass and drifted to the South Pole over many years’.
But that does not explain how it got underneath the ice.
What if something else happened? What if, like clockwork, every thirteen thousand years the entire earth's crust (only thirteen miles thick floating over eight thousand miles of molten lava) shifts because of the weight of this ice on the poles ends up on the equator after the thin crust slides across the molten liquid rock underneath in a huge spiral movement? If so, then the kids are right.
We do not know how long this ‘correction’ takes, but it is catastrophic, with tectonic plates shifting, molten lave bursting from cracks in the plates - the earth literally moves, the whole earth’s hard crust, as a unit.
The now equatorial polar ice masses then melt causing a rise in coastal sea levels up to 400 feet and the Antarctic continent is under the South Pole – hello, Lost City of Atlantis.
Recorded history only goes back five thousand years, before that is myth and oral tradition.
Yet very mythological ‘oral tradition’ on the planet, from South America to Africa to the east is virtually identical, speaking of an 'end of the world' scenario - fire, mountains (the sky) falling, earth moving (the crust shifting), volcanoes (tectonic plates shifting and breaking), followed by a flood (the poles, now on the equator, melting.)
There are specific, mathematically correct, geophysical proofs recently recorded by Mr. Graham Hancock, author of 'Fingerprints of the Gods' (an unfortunate positioning in image and market position terms – the book’s in there with fake gods from Sirius, lizard people and other fanciful and bizarre inventions, so reserve judgment until you read it.)
Hancock is not in that realm. His work is scientifically impeccable and has convinced me that this is certainly if not fact, then at the very least worthy a serious mainstream scientific investigation.
Because if he is right - and there is no available argument to the contrary that I have so far found - we have less than three hundred years to prepare for the next cataclysmic shift of the earth’s crust.
Or we melt the poles, starting now (after we have all convinced ourselves that the closed, unbalanced ecosystem conclusion is indeed not such a remote possibility, depolitcized and demonetized the planet’s ‘Odious Debt’ and stopped killing each other.)
Well duh! I wonder how this could be possible. I'm almost speechless. Suppose it might have something to do with the kind of scare tactics being used today by various "green" proponents and supporters.
Given the irresponsible actions of this group I would have been surprised by any other survey outcome. Indeed, with the outrageous TV, movie and print media barrage being aimed at this very vulnerable and impressionable demographic it's a miracle any of these young people still are able to function or are willing to leave their homes for fear their lives are doomed anyway by global warming, "mysterious" sun activity, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wars, famine - or any combination of these and other factors.
First and formost, your survey of 500 kids by phone raises some questions for me about the methodology. I doubt the data is statistically significant enough to extrapolate much.
Second, your conclusions seem a little specious, too. All this information tells us is that kids are getting brainwashed. Should anyone be proud of the fact that we've literally frightened our children into a panic in order to get them to recycle more so that a handful lobbyists and scientists have job security?
In the 1950s kids were scared of the Ruskies incinerating us with their 100 megaton bombs. During the 1970s the Club of Rome and Paul Ehrlich warned us about Global Cooling and our diminishing resources -- by the year 2000 we would run out of oil food and metals. During the 80s and 90s Genetically-modified food, chlorine and other chemicals would change our DNA and produce monsters. Now we have this global warming hysteria, if the heat doesn't kill us the rising oceans will overwhelm all but the highlands.
Only the nuclear threat had any semblance of reality.
Actually the kids won't need to wait that long. In December 2012, according to all of the writings from the author "Nostradamus", 2012 is described as the time of the end/beginning!! This time period is vividly described in SEVERAL writings as well as videos from a large amount of authors not to mention prophets.....past and present. NOW it is GOD'S turn!
Parents, you need to tell your children the TRUTH while they are young and will listen to you. They are being fed lie after lie in their schools and it's time for it to STOP!! This is all politically motivated and there is no such thing as "global warming." We have just been through the worst WINTER in years and since God is in control, will probably go through many more so He can prove to these idiots that WE are not changing the climate. HE is and it's a natural thing, not man made. If this goes on, children will be reporting their parents for using too much water, electricity, etc. etc. Happened in Germany - could certainly happen here!!!
The Mayan Calendar ends December 21, 2012. Go ahead and investigate!! Get a couple books at the library by the prophet "Nostradamus". The more you nvestigate and read on, the more you will see what is about to happen. The Bible spends it's entire last chapter on the end of days. OPEN UP YOUR MINDS.
Just goes to show how poorly educated our children are these days
Someone has to be below average intelligence. In this case the "believer" is the below par intelligence. aka "unDemocrat" .... Then there is the republican who is the average and the libertarian who is above average.
Hope you guys are proud....you have successfully scared children for no real apparent reason since all things are trending the right direction on environmental issues.
Regarding politics we race towards a police state. But you do not think they should be worried about that. You guys LOVE to worship.
About ten years ago,my fiance's son got into all kinds of trouble in science class.To test global warming(at the time)he took a glass filled it with ice,then filled the glass with water to the rim.During the day,as the ice melted,the volume of water seemed to decrease.No overflow!(that ice expands as it freezes thing)Therefor,no possibility of coastal inundation from global warming!He got an A+ for his grade and a D for his attitude,I said way to go and I'd take that D as a badge of honor,which he did.Today,Chris is an engineer for the US military,his children won't be bs'ed either.Science and math rules,politics is bs.
"the mark ot the beast is 666? thats 2/3" - Doofus
This article was linked to by the Drudge Report, which explains why there has been a legion of ignorant Conservative American Ditto-Heads posting here that there is no ongoing destruction of the natural environment.
Environmental damage will not be stopped until the Conservative American Cancer has been Eradicated from the face of the earth.
Well, we could have had nice, safe clean nuclear power if it hadn't been for the last round of baseless scares. I wish the idiots would make up their minds.
Eventually the environmentalists will have to be purged from power if the country is to survive. It isn't possible to ban and regulate away all sources of energy and have anything other than a complete and utter disaster. The cheaper and more abundant energy is the faster we will progress technologically and the more protected we will be from any sort of disaster.... whether manmade ones such as the Obama presidency or natural ones like the variation of temperature of the earth, or rebuilding after other natural disasters.
If you've seen the type of books that get published for Middle Grade and Young Adults, you wouldn't be surprised by this poll. Besides, the global warming alarmists are alive and well in most public schools, too. What kid wouldn't want to hide under his bed for the rest of his life?
Ding dong, the Green Fascists have arrived. There is nothing we can do as a human species that will "destroy the earth". This is the biggest load of crap ever propagated by our society and liberal school system. Even if there were a nuclear war, the earth wouldn't be destroyed. In fact, even in those countries where nuclear bombs fell, the countries themselves wouldn't be destroyed. Nor would a majority of humans die. Earth has survived several mass extinctions and renewed itself each time.
If the chidren are so down on what the future holds, then I suggest all of them do the right thing and commit suicide! This way they will have nothing to be araid of!
The Communists knew they could not change the minds of adults so they took the children into government schools and made good little comrades out of them. It looks like the Greenies (the last refuge of communism) have been successful with this method. This is the best advertisement for home schooling.
global warming is made up by hypocritical sissies who want something to wine about so that they can cover up their own inadequacies. do you know how they "prove" global warming (or "climate change")? they enter it into the same computer program that predicts our weather. How can we predict the future of our planet's environment and climate when we can even get the 5 day forcast correct?! Think on that "Liberal American Cancer"
The political indoctrination of children proceeds unabated in the nations schools. With specious arguments that are at best fables fit only to scare small children. ECOFREAKS will always shout doom and gloom and they will always be WRONG.
Global warming - now climate change is not man driven and never was. This is just a phoney religion that seeks to line the pockets of the politicians and their croneys. These alarmists are nothing more than ignorant idiots.
Wow. We can't figure out the weather next week and you think we know about global warming? 1) The earth is actually cooling. 2) In the 70's these wizards of smart predicted cooling-then warming-now "climate change". 3) How do you explain the fact it was hotter millions of years go, and it has been colder millions of years ago, than it is now. The northern half of the USA was under ice 50,000 years ago. HHHMM, thank God for global warming at that time. 4) The reason minorities feel this stress more is the fact they are in more liberal distrcits--a FACT--and get this crap pounded in their heads. It is disgusting that politicians and media stars scare our kids for their own gain.
How do you destroy the earth? Human behavior can destroy flora. fauna, and other humans, but the earth always will rebound till the sun burns out. Human beings will irradicate themselves, not the environment. Such arrogance. Liberalism is a disease
If my generations (Punks from the 80s) was any indication, the green movement is in serious danger of backfiring. Back in the 80's we were told to be afraid of nuclear war and it got to the point where nobody cared anymore because we couldn't really do anything about it. We were hoping for a war after a while, to cleanse the Earth.
Recycling is very nice, but it won't offset all the damage that planes and large boats do. It won't stop pollution from China and other developping countries. It won't change the fact that we are 6 billion going on 7. We can only control what we do and suggest others do the same, that's all we can do.
What's going to happen is that you'll see utter apathy and nihilism in kids within the next few years, mixed with a new youth led left-wing Xenophobia and hatred of these "dirty" foreign countries who refuse to help the Earth and who are the leaders in overpopulation.
Fun eh?
"Environmental damage will not be stopped until the Conservative American Cancer has been Eradicated from the face of the earth."
This post says it all about liberals.
Be afraid, because they are in charge of every facet of government now.
And, nonsensically, they are still SO VERY ANGRY. Why?
Children are scared because communist teachers have been brainwashing them to think there is something wrong with the planet and it's all our fault. What a bunch of Marxist crap. No wonder so many kinds are self loathing. You environmental Waco’s have done a bang up job of screwing up our kids. You arrogance is appalling and pathetic. You brainwash children into believing in bogus data about the health of the planet. And furthermore you brainwash our children to think that worshiping the planet (paganism) is the way to salvation. You people are so stupid. I just love how you atheist environmentalists stole the term "Apocalypse" from the bible. If you knew anything about the bible you would know that you can't stop Judgment Day. I feel sorry for you. You have turned basic caring of the environment into a radical self hating religion. I'm waiting for the day when you environmental sicko's start justifying the killing of what you consider undesirable CO2 producing humans to "save the planet".
I agree we should do what we can to keep things clean but to scare kids that aren't taught that warming and cooling periods are normal but instead fill their heads with this nonsense about global warming is just another democrat/liberal trick and parents need to teach their kids the truth instead of letting democrat/liberal schools teach them lies.l
Don't worry just tell them Jesus and Sean Hannity will fly down on unicorn made of chocolate and gold and will make everything alright.
Left-wing indoctrination is one of the reasons I homeschool my kids. This is a perfect example.
One in three kids is freaking out over "Earth Apocalypse"? Why am I not surprised! When I hear about the daily indoctrination, lies, dogma, and the apocalyptic fantasies that our kids are exposed to on a daily basis regarding the human-induced global warming myth it's amazing that more of them are not dysfunctional. Unfortunately, the kids are not yet articulate enough (or just don't have the nerve) to challenge their teachers who have become little more than drones of the state, promoting the socialist-environmental agenda. And where and when are the kids exposed to the opposing viewpoint, the viewpoint that is based on science not science fiction?
Um Robert...
"You people are so stupid. I just love how you atheist environmentalists stole the term "Apocalypse" from the bible."
I know we're stupid but actually...the bible stole the word apocalypse from the Greeks, before the bible was written...it means to uncover or reveal something...like truth...
Um agraham...nothing was stolen. In our Hebrew beginnings we used the term apocalypsis, (unveiling, as you say) which comes from tradition. Jacob didn't unveil his bride whom he thought to be Rachel. In our early Catholic tradition this term was used as the unveiling of our Lord in Christ. Now, as with most things, this word has lost its meaning because of excessive misuse. As for the fear mongers scaring children... when I was a child 'they' tried to convince us that the coming ice age, nuclear war and overpopulation would destroy us all. Then we were inundated with false statistics about AIDS, et. al. Now the new religion is global warming. These can have their doom for themselves. I know the forest well, as I can touch and see. I look to that which is simply Eternal, without beginning or end, without condition...God alone.
Quit scareing children!!!
When I was a teenager in the early 90's, I'll never forget when someone came into our class and said "in ten years, 1 in every 6 people will have aids"... then he proceded to go through the entire class counting every 6th person, and saying "you will have aids".
I guess the moral of the story is that people just want to scare you. and you can take most of the fear mongering with zero credability.
even in biblical times people were talking about the end of the world using the same fear tactics.
the only 2 things that are scarier than death to a human being is, fear of the end of the world and fear of going to hell in the afterlife...and people have been p[laying off these deep seeded fears for as long as we have been on the earth.
This is why I send my children to a Christian school. At least the end of the world that Christians envision involves the birth of something new. ie there is hope.
In a nihilistic secular world, the only motivation is fear, since there is not a solid foundation for faith, hope or love.
Protect your kids from the eco-fundamentalists, the feminist fundamentalists, and the gay fundamentalists, send them to a Christian school.
So, you're telling me that you polled a school's or two worth of kids: "Commissioned by Habitat Heroes and conducted by Opinion Research, the telephone survey polled a national sample of 500 American preteens—250 males and 250 females. "
And based on this little, little number, you wrote this article? Research fail!
one in three kids know what the word apocalypse means? Well it could always be worse, give it a couple years.
seems all the talk polititians in a nsw speak of green values while banning electric bikes,they are a bunch of hipocrates,electric bicycles reduce greenhouse gases by reducing our use of cars but the nsw gov in australia are banning them on our roads,makes no sense to me.
"This is why I send my children to a Christian school. At least the end of the world that Christians envision involves the birth of something new. ie there is hope.
In a nihilistic secular world, the only motivation is fear, since there is not a solid foundation for faith, hope or love.
Protect your kids from the eco-fundamentalists, the feminist fundamentalists, and the gay fundamentalists, send them to a Christian school."
Wow! Not being YOUR brand of Christian automatically makes one a nihilist? What would Jesus think about that? Keep your kids away from mine.
I think this is sad. It means that they feel little or no control over the situation. I would prefer that kids recognise that there is a challenge, but feel optimistic that we can all handle it. Fear just paralyses people. Optimism and hope puts people into action.