CSIRO: Climate change skeptic’s nonsense

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The CSIRO, which really needs a loon pond broom put through it for this research, has released its annual “attitudes to climate change” survey. The results are interesting in a number ways. The headline result has the community strongly behind the notion of climate change:

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But not so much that it is human induced:

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Some of the fury of the debate can be put own to the, ahem, narcissism of skeptics who wrongly believe they represent some silent majority:

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And who base that view not on science but on an inflated opinion of their own “common sense”:

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I note as well that a quarter of believers are equally ill-informed. Over time we can see that the campaign to change attitudes has largely failed:

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But has gained a little traction in not blaming peeps:

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Science needs more selling. Full report.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.