unconvinced

Al Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing his message to the world—for naught in Britain, where only a minority trust that he (among others) is telling the truth about global warming. Most people believe they’re being misled, and that it’s a tax scheme:

The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer.

The results have shocked campaigners who hoped that doubts would have been silenced by a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which found a 90 per cent chance that humans were the main cause of climate change and warned that drastic action was needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Bjorn Lomborg took the opportunity to lay blame exactly where it belongs:

Professor Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, said politicians and campaigners were to blame for over-simplifying the problem by only publicising evidence to support the case.

Ya think?

I’m telling ya—influencing people to change their minds isn’t as easy as it appears. And the world ain’t what it used to be. I mean the guy won the Nobel Peace Prize and no one in Britain believes him!

Maybe George Lakoff is right after all, and only propaganda works.

I should probably point out that I wrote more than two years ago about the overhyping  of the urgency of global warming … but did anyone listen to me? Of course not!