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The Ecologist - 18/04/11

Twice as many people in India and Japan rank climate change as one of the most important environmental issues, highlighting the challenge facing UK policymakers and climatologists

Only a quarter of Britons believe climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the UK today, according to a survey conducted by Ipsos MORI and released to the Ecologist this week.

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Monckton and his fellow sceptics seem to be winning in the UK. It's all very depressing.

It’s not depressing at all. It is just human nature.

A lot of the climate change science is very fatalistic. A report will say half the artic has melted, another ,Co2 has reached catastrophic levels or freshwater will all but disappear for half the population of the world.
Faced with such a huge problem most people will ignore it, as it is just too big to face. Who can blame them? Plus what could they realistically do?

Now if the climate brigade came up with some positive messages the “ majority” could get behind, that would be different.

For example Co2 must be reduced by 75% in 5 years.
We will seize all land and redistribute it evenly amongst the population, so most people can grow a proportion of their food and thus save billions of tonnes of Co2.
To power every home with micro generation all private and public pensions will be cancelled and the surplus money used will give everyone a flat rate pension.

Monckton and his friends know that redistribution is the only answer and will fight it to the bitter end. The only way you will get Joe public onside is if you give them a vested and moral reason to do something about it.
So when yet another climate report comes out it will again be treated as white noise.