Guest essay by Larry Hamlin

The Orange County Register published a spreadsheet on October 27, 2024 (shown below) presenting results of Chapman University’s 10^th annual update of their study “Our Fears and How They’ve Changed” survey.

The last year “Global warming and climate change” made the top 10 fears list was for the years 2018 and 2019 where this “fear” was 9^th on the list.

The year 2024 top ten fears listing has “Global warming and climate change” as number 21 (falling below the year 2023 placement) on the list despite decades Democrat led anti-science government driven climate alarmist hype and propaganda.

The number 1 fear on the 2024 “Top 10 fears” list is “Corrupt Government Officials” which has led this list since 2016. 

The year 2024 top 10 fears listing is shown below.

It seems that the more the climate extremist media pushes contrived government climate alarmist propaganda schemes (unsupported by valid science data versus phony models) the more suspect the public becomes of their flawed politically driven alarmist hype.