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kittinSol -> RE: Majority of Britons not convinced about Global Warming cause (6/23/2008 6:17:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611
How dare they question the media! How dare they question the great Al Gore (who's own energy consumption went up 10% last year)! We need to load up the BBC with so-called "experts" and educate the public.
I don't think many people in the UK give a shit about Al Gore.
According to the article, a lot of people aren't interested in environmental issues right now, because they're dealing with a general economic meltdown and have other things on their plates: rightly or wrongly, environmental concerns are seen as a luxury. It also looks as though the unbelieving public in question has paid rather a lot of attention to two major sources of global warming denial in the United Kingdom, so your point about the public being manipulated by pro-environmentalists is moot:
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"There is growing concern that an economic depression and rising fuel and food prices are denting public interest in environmental issues. Some environmentalists blame the public's doubts on last year's Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, and on recent books, including one by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, that question the consensus on climate change."
Another reason seems to be that, contrary to your indoctrination theory, the general public is badly informed. Quantity of information doesn't necessarily imply quality: there is a deluge of stuff on the environment, but:
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"However 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. 'Things that we do know - like humans do cause climate change - are being put in doubt,' said Lomborg. 'If you're saying, "We're not going to tell you the whole truth, but we're going to ask you to pay up a lot of money," people are going to be unsure."
It's all about cash, but I think you know this already. To conclude this quote-laddened post, the Dept. for the Environment themselves sound a little embarrassed by the results of the poll:
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"In response to the poll's findings, the Department for the Environment issued a statement: 'The IPCC... concluded the scientific evidence for climate change is clear and it is down to human activities. It is already affecting people's lives - and the impact will be much greater if we don't act now."
Yet, I would hardly call the British government a pro-environmental organisation. Certainly, Greenpeace is one of their arch enemies. All the quotes above are derived from the Guardian article you linked.
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