Brietbart and some legitimate media cover a YouGov survey that shows that compared to other countries, the US and UK are hotbeds of denial.
In the US, 32% of respondents said climate change isn't a very serious or serious problem at all, with 26% saying the same in the UK. This is a marked difference from other countries, particularly in Asia. For example, only 11% of Australians said the same, and only 4% of Chinese said climate change was not a serious problem. Malaysia and Indonesia are particularly strong, with only 2% and 3% respectively considering climate change not a serious problem.
Brietbart claims the high levels of skepticism in the US and UK are because the US and UK need to give money to developing countries to solve climate change, and no one wants to give out their money. But this gives short shrift to the billions of dollars spent by US- and UK-based "charities" to lobby against climate action and otherwise confuse the public and media about the certainty of the climate-carbon connection.
The strength of the Australian response in favor of climate action was surprising, as the nation recently repealed its carbon tax. There, 67% of respondents said the government isn't doing enough and only 7% said it's doing too much. Given that Oz is the headquarters of the Murdoch Media, one would expect the level of denial to be more similar to that in the US and UK.
Perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising, though, given the fact that the government is still unable to find a university to take $4 million (AUD) in exchange for giving Lomborg's Consensus Center a headquarters more impressive than his current PO box.
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