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A similar dynamic is at play now, concerning the issue of global warming. The science underlying much of the speculation is subject to question and peer review and much remains unsettled. Possibly the worst thing that could have happened for the establishment of subject matter credibility on the issue of whether anthrogenic global warming occurs or not was Al Gore making a movie about it. The sorts of people who didn’t like Al Gore very much — and bear in mind that in the United States, that was about half the population — recognized policy advocacy coming from the other tribe, and rejected it and everything it was based on out of hand. Actual scientific critique of the theories in An Inconvenient Truth were and still are offered as “proof” that the science described in the movie was bad. Defenders of global warming theory, in turn, view any criticism of what they have to say as “denialism” and reject other evidence out of hand.

Study Finds Solar Power Systems Add 3% To A Home's Value : Renewable Energy News :

The solar panels provide "existence value", with households recognising they are playing a part in the battle against climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

Additionally, a home solar power system may contribute to status within a community. "Such households may be recognized by neighbors for their civic virtue," say the paper's authors.

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In fact, sceptics are growing in number, not falling; predictions of sea level rises now seem to have been greatly exaggerated; ice loss in the Arctic has not worsened in four years; no one denies the climate changes; and this is not a “carbon tax” but a tax on carbon dioxide that will not change the temperature at all. And the climate models predicting regional effects of any warming have proved near useless, as a National Technical University of Athens study has demonstrated.

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