The Unpersuadables
Posted March 8 2010
In fighting for science we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 9th March 2010.
There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: what would it take to persuade you? In most cases the answer seems to be nothing. No level of evidence can shake the growing belief that climate science is a giant conspiracy codded up by boffins and governments to tax and control us.