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by 7952 4363 days ago
Climate change scepticism is not a fringe view, but moderately widely held. It is hard to believe that those people will suddenly support environmentally literate policy. They will just switch to a different set of trite anecdotes to prove why nothing should change.
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> Climate change scepticism is not a fringe view, but moderately widely held.

Is it true for the US? That's definitely not my impression for Europe, it always looked to me that was a belief from a tiny minority.

> Climate change scepticism is not a fringe view, but moderately widely held

Amongst 1) the general public, 2) scientists in general, or 3) climate scientists specifically?