Reuters blogger on Gore's alarmism: "Everyone he could convince already believes him; anyone who doesn’t trust him on this by now won’t ever believe him...the [nonbelievers] don’t distrust science, necessarily. It’s just that they’re a skeptical bunch"

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Note that Gore, who declined to talk to Reuters for this piece, followed up his first climate project by recruiting a cadre of volunteers to help spread climate science with a new presentation, an updated version of the Inconvenient Truth slideshow. The Climate Reality Project, which enlists and trains these volunteers, has worked “to try and recruit presenters from all walks of life and all demographics of life and to arm them with facts and slideshow,” says Kevin Curtis, the project’s program director.

But this second round of “climate reality” hasn’t ginned up the same horror Gore’s first slideshow did. Everyone he could convince already believes him; anyone who doesn’t trust him on this by now won’t ever believe him. Even with a fresh batch of recruits, a scientific slideshow can’t save the planet; it’s too tempting to simply shoot all of these messengers. The assailants don’t distrust science, necessarily. It’s just that they’re a skeptical bunch.

Remember, too, the evolution of Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina. In 2009 Graham put his name beside John Kerry’s in a New York Times op-ed that declared: “We agree that climate change is real and threatens our economy and national security.” Less than a year later, Senator Graham told reporters that “the science about global warming has changed … I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly.”