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Further to the post on US media
September 11th, 2012 at 7:00 pm by David Farrar
Latest Blunt cartoon
March 4th, 2012 at 4:00 pm by David Farrar
The Xmas Turkey
November 13th, 2011 at 6:00 pm by David Farrar
Blunt on Electioneering
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:39 pm by David Farrar
Blunt on ACT
October 29th, 2011 at 2:30 pm by David Farrar
Today’s Blunt
October 5th, 2011 at 7:00 am by David Farrar
Blunt on Phil and the polls
July 28th, 2011 at 10:43 pm by David Farrar
Today’s Blunt
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:00 pm by David Farrar
Today’s Blunt
July 21st, 2011 at 3:00 pm by David Farrar
Today’s Blunt
July 20th, 2011 at 3:00 pm by David Farrar
Today’s Blunt
July 19th, 2011 at 3:00 pm by David Farrar
Cartoon 14 June 2011
June 15th, 2011 at 4:00 pm by David Farrar
Blunt on Tamaki
February 21st, 2011 at 9:15 pm by David Farrar
Blunt on Key
March 11th, 2010 at 3:00 pm by David Farrar
Mosal from the Mount
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:08 pm by David Farrar
Blunt on Heatley
February 28th, 2010 at 7:35 pm by David Farrar
Blunt on America’s Cup
February 15th, 2010 at 8:19 am by David Farrar
The effect of Climategate
February 7th, 2010 at 2:52 pm by David FarrarPopulus polled the UK on climate change in early November 2009, before Climategate, and again in early February 2010.
The findings, and the changes from November to February are:
- 75% (-8%) agree global warming is happening
- 34% (-16%) of that 75% agree it is an established scientific fact that climate change is largely man-made
- 50% (+11%) say man-made global warming is a widespread theory but has not been conclusively proved
- 14% (+5%) say man-made climate change is environmentalist propaganda with little or no evidence
Now to look at these numbers as shares of the total population, they are:
- 25% (+8%) say there is no global warming
- 11% (+4%) say there is global warming but it is natural
- 38% (+6%) say there is global warming but it has not been conclusively proven it is man-made, however that is the widespread theory
- 26% (-16%) say that there is global warming and it is an established scientific fact it is largely man-made
So this shows the magnitude of the changes. Those who say it is a fact we have man-made global warming has dropped from 42% to 26%. That is a relative decline of almost 40%, so one in three people who believed global warming is definitely man-made have changed their minds.
UPDATE: This Blunt cartoon seems topical
Blunt on crying wolf
January 21st, 2010 at 7:17 pm by David Farrar
Blunt on Climategate
January 19th, 2010 at 9:08 am by David Farrar
Blunt on Minto
January 8th, 2010 at 7:55 am by David Farrar
Today’s Blunt
December 19th, 2009 at 2:34 pm by David Farrar
The TV3 poll
December 14th, 2009 at 3:00 pm by David FarrarI now have a copy of the full TV3 poll results, and have blogged them at curiablog.
This Blunt cartoon is in line with most of the media analysis.
However while the poll certainly shows movements of some significance, I think most of the commentary has been somewhat over-excited – especially tying it to the nationhood speech. The poll is more about a drop in support for National and John Key (and over two months) than a payoff from the nationhood speech for Phil Goff. A few things to look at:
- The 24.4% gap between National and Labour is greater than the November One News poll and the mid and late November Morgan polls. TV3′s last poll was in mid October so the comparison is over a two month period.
- The previous gap of 60% to 27% was unlikely to remain – you can only go down from there.
- Goff as Preferred PM at 8.0% is still below the 9.1% he got in April 2009
- Goff’s net approval rating has actually dropped from -3.7% to -8.4%
- Of the eight leadership characteristics they ask about, Goff dropped on three, stayed the same on two and increased on three
Now this doesn’t mean it was good news for National. The poll is not so much about Labour or Goff going up – it was about National and Key dropping over the last two months (not last two weeks). Changes for Key are:
- Down 5.8% as Preferred PM
- Down 9.4% those saying Key doing a good job (but still high at 73%)
This reflects I think the unpopularity (on both the left and right) of elements of the ETS, and coverage of other unpopular issues (perks, Hone Harawira saga).
So again while the poll does show some significant movement, most of the media are analysing it wrongly in showing a “pay off” for Phil Goff for his nationhood speech. The poll is quite consistent with the mid to late November polls in other media, and the two month gap makes it unsafe to tie to one more recent event.
This graph puts the polls in context. This TV3 poll was in fact better than the three previous polls in November, so the average gas has increased.
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