End US War Machine: Frank Luntz 'GOP pollster' advised global warming group to use 'national security' angle to get rubes on board

Monday, January 3, 2011

Frank Luntz 'GOP pollster' advised global warming group to use 'national security' angle to get rubes on board

With trillions at stake including organized crime, global warming guys are using the

'national security' angle to sell catastrophic man-made global warming.

Global warming group EDF hired "GOP pollster" Frank Luntz who advised them to use this

"national security" angle,
and don't mention 'carbon offsets':

1/31/10, "How to sell a climate change bill to Americans," True Slant, Eilene Zimmerman

"And regardless of how Americans feel about global warming—whether they think it’s causes by people, god or a natural phenomena, even whether or not they think it’s real—it seems Luntz has found that the only way to get them to respond to legislation that will address the problem is to cite that old standby:

national security.

A jittery nation we are, clearly, as national security “tops every other reason to support cap and trade”—according to Luntz’s report. It’s not about saving the world anymore. It’s about “freeing the U.S. from foreign oil—and opening the door to greater security and prosperity.” "...

Luntz is not correct. Far left ideologues have taken over what is known as the 'environmental' movement. Luntz starts with 2 basic flaws: conflating the carbon endangerment agenda with general concerns about the environment; and telling his client that we (presumably right of center people) really do want "climate regulation." This is totally false. ed.

(True Slant): "The EDF wants Congress to pass a bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and believes Americans really do want to see one pass. Two new polls prove it, one by the Benenson Strategy Group, which shows that 58 percent of Americans favor a cap on emissions. The other is by Luntz, and also shows Americans support climate regulation,

but only when it’s “couched in terms of national security and jobs,

as well as cleaner air,” reporters for the American Public Media show Marketplace told us on Friday.

Luntz’s report, “The Language of a Clean Energy Economy” says generally Americans do believe the environment is worsening—that the quality of our air, water and general environment is deteriorated over the last decade."...

(It is important to distinguish general care of the environment (which concerns most of us) from what the 'climate' industry is selling, which is very different. They're selling CO2 endangerment which they say causes sinking islands, too much snow, rain, heat, etc. The entire industry rests on the false premise that catastrophic man made global warming exists, and is largely caused by evil middle class Americans who must pay billions immediately and in perpetuity to equatorial dictators, hedge fund billionaires, and UN grifters. It is obviously easier to sell if you just let people think they are good for caring about the environment. ed.)

(continuing): "Turns out Americans want action on climate change but not for the reasons they have heard over the years—that it’s important because pollutants in the air are bad for us,

because a warming planet will cause rising seas,
drought,
hurricanes,
vanishing species, etc.

We believe it’s real but we’re only going to do something about it if you use words like “green jobs” or, better yet, “American jobs.” If you get rid of “sustainability” and instead say “cleaner, safer, healthier.”"...

(So Luntz told his client that we-Americans- do believe that because of the automobile and other inventions, we selfishly are responsible for sinking islands in the Indian Ocean, hurricanes, etc. That we agree we are guilty of climate crime, and that we owe billions in reparations every year in perpetuity. ed.)

(continuing): "Luntz’s message to government and business: ‘“Carbon Neutral” Should be Eliminated from your Vocabulary’ is also the heading on that graph from the report.

“Carbon neutral” conjures up “Hollywood types flying across the country and buying carbon offsets.” “Accountability for polluters,” on the other hand, conjures up good governance, says a story last week in The New Republic. The story goes on to say that Luntz:

insists that Americans would support a cap on carbon emissions—80 percent of Dems, but also 43 percent of Republicans he surveyed are either definitely or pretty sure climate change is a problem that’s caused in part by humans. But he doesn’t believe cap-and-trade can pass as long as “it’s called ‘cap-and-trade,’ and all the messaging that’s been used against it. The title has become so demonized that they’ve got to come up with a new name.”"...

Dear Fred Upton: It is said you believe at least some of what this pathetic person Luntz has said. If so, please do America a favor and resign immediately. Thanks.

P.S. "“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times …