Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
That's interesting, as I didn't take a stance on whether Global Cooling or Global Warming or the Climate Change catchall is real or not, so I'm not sure which way I'm not capable of being swayed. If it helps, I've lived through both the Cooling and Warming scares, both of which were supported by the best science of the day.

I was addressing the percentage of people who may or may not attribute all the hub bub to "Democratic, liberal, left, treehugger propaganda" and a possible reason for it, if it were true. The one thing I feel strongly on is the way the climate change industry has hurt itself by its history of overstating the near-term threat and its questionable manipulation of data to influence public opinion. If you were to strip those two observations out of the equation, and if the climate change models which predict the effects of higher levels of greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere duplicated real conditions over the past 15 or so years, I'm sure there'd be less skepticism.

Also, from a political perspective, if governments hadn't locked onto the premise of global warming/climate change as a means of regulating a global economy, most people could probably then focus on the pure science, whatever that may actually be.
The Gallop Poll I found did indeed align conservatives as cool skeptics and liberals as concerned believers. I don't remember the numbers and how strongly it correlates. If I'm reading you right, your saying that the scientists from the most respectable academic institutes all over the world, many of them independent of each other, are corruptible and have colluded to a false conclusion to benefit the politicians, and additionally have ignored obvious possibilities of why they might be wrong? I could see that for a smaller percentage than 97% or more. Or I might have misunderstood.

Another interesting statistic is that Americans are outliers. Quite generally over 50 percent of those in industrialized nations are concerned believers. Or at least that's how I read it. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/up...pgtype=article And actually, poor countries are more likely to be believers than rich ones.