Americans believe in climate change risks but won't pay to fix them – survey | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Some 80% believed the cost of coastal protections should be carried by those living in coastal communities.

sp!ked review of books | Climate change: an elite affectation

Rupert Darwall’s history of the idea of global warming shows how the belief in an impending manmade apocalypse emanated from the top of wealthy Western societies.
...A comment made by Gore in an interview in June 1992 is indicative of the importance of climate change to these elites. ‘The task of saving the Earth’s environment is going to become the central organising principle in the post-Cold War world’, he said.