An excellent article, George. Thanks for bringing it to us. I've written several articles on the fake climategateemails, as well as the other FakeGates. The denialist industry knows that they can distort and outright lie about pretty much everything and people will continue to cite the falsehoods long after they have been unequivocally shown to be false. It's just another one of their tactics.
As with so many of the wing-nut tactics -- it works with politics also. I am glad you found it interesting. I wonder how deep the water will have to be before a majority catch on.
Given that most of the world's population centers are on the coast, the water won't have to get too deep to dip a few toes.
It's rather unfortunate that man's first reaction to anything off the status quo is to fearfully deny it. I keep thinking of that oft-used line "Houston, we have a problem." The Apollo 13 astronauts and the entire ground crew and every engineer associated with the space program put their wits into finding a solution to get them home alive. Imagine what would have happened if instead they had channeled the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie - "don't worry, Houston, it's just a flesh wound."
Being responsible means identifying a problem and dealing with it. Being irresponsible is screaming hoax on a warming planet.
The most telling and damning fact, which the cynics always avoid and downplay, is the well-documented link between climate cynicism and the fossil fuel industries. Somehow, the public will trust the poorly disguised oil and coal interests instead of science.
That said, there are other polls that show the majority lines up with the scientists.
Much of the public does not want to have to think, and accepting that climate change is taking place will force one to do at least some thinking. In the political world, that is why you can have an elderly tea party person with a sign saying, "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
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I am glad you found it interesting. I wonder how deep the water will have to be before a majority catch on.
It's rather unfortunate that man's first reaction to anything off the status quo is to fearfully deny it. I keep thinking of that oft-used line "Houston, we have a problem." The Apollo 13 astronauts and the entire ground crew and every engineer associated with the space program put their wits into finding a solution to get them home alive. Imagine what would have happened if instead they had channeled the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie - "don't worry, Houston, it's just a flesh wound."
Being responsible means identifying a problem and dealing with it. Being irresponsible is screaming hoax on a warming planet.
That said, there are other polls that show the majority lines up with the scientists.
Polling Report
Stanford Poll: Large majority of Americans support government solutions to global warming
And, of course, there are the usual problems with public opinion polls on scientific issues.
But the more important "poll" is a scientific survey of the most active climate scientists, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
But, of course, it's the public opinion polls, which get media coverage.