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Climate change opinion shifts

Posted on 2/15/2010 at 11:56:41 AM

Climate change is the current hot topic in environmentalism and science as we all know, but it has taken a while to get to that position. For too long people simply thought nothing was down to their own actions, that it was all down to others. Now it seems that just as the idea that humans are having an effect on the climate of Earth was gaining ground, it is losing it again.

The problem has always been that the theory behind climate change is constantly evolving. When the public have been convinced of one concept and believe it to be true and then a new, improved theory pops up, it convinces them that everything they learned before was wrong. Repeat the cycle too many times and you get what we have now – a shift towards people dismissing the whole thing.

Well that is happening now in the UK, with the 4 months between November 2009 and February 2010 showing 10% of people no longer believe that climate change is really occurring. Sure, the unusually cold winter experienced during that period could have had something to do with it. Even the scandals over private e-mails between climate researchers could have had an effect.

Whatever caused it though, the important thing is to work towards reversing this trend.