"Public support for action on global warming has fallen in fairly spectacular fashion according to the British Social Attitudes Survey"

- Bishop Hill blog - Society rejects action on climate

Climategate is cited as a key factor in the fall in support. And rightly so - the Russell panel noted that CRU and IPCC had both been guilty of misleading policymakers over the "hide the decline" episode, and there has been no no meaningful investigation into allegations of journal nobbling.