Allegedly wise European David Attenborough paints Americans as a bunch of pistol-packing pioneers who are too stupid to understand what's "very clear" to "the rest of us": Carbon dioxide causes bad weather

David Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost | Environment | guardian.co.uk

One of the world's leading naturalists has accused US politicians of ducking the issue of climate change because of the economic cost of tackling it [Wait, what?!  I thought we were all supposed to make money by "tackling" CO2-induced bad weather] and warned that it would take a terrible example of extreme weather to wake people up to the dangers of global warming.

Speaking just days after the subject of climate change failed to get a mention in the US presidential debates for the first time in 24 years, Sir David Attenborough told the Guardian: "[It] does worry me that most powerful nation in the world, North America, denies what the rest of us can see very clearly [on climate change]. I don't know what you do about that. It's easier to deny."
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Attenborough said he thought the US's attitude towards climate change and the environment was not just because of politics, but because of the country's history. "[It's] because they're a pioneer country. There has been the wild west, the western frontier… that's still there, you see it in the arms business, the right for everyone to bear arms. It's part of the pioneer stuff that you've [Americans] grown up with."

...Talking about the record Arctic sea ice melt this summer, he said: "The situation is worse than we thought [in the Arctic]. The processes of melting are more volatile than we thought. More complicated. The ice cap is really melting faster than we thought."

The 86-year-old naturalist, who is also a patron of the charity Population Matters, said many of the environmental problems the world faced could be helped by addressing human population, which is believed to have reached the 7 billion mark last year, and is forecast to reach 10 billion by the middle of the century.

The solution, he said, was to raise living standards and increase democracy in developing countries.

Sir David Attenborough: 'Climate change dangers worse than we thought' - video | Environment | guardian.co.uk

recent evidence of melting polar caps shows the situation is worse than had been thought.