75% of Americans Have Never Heard of Climate-Gate, Study Reveals : TreeHugger

In the course of investigating a recent piece for Slate on how climate skeptics can "convert" to believe in the science, I spoke with Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, the Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. He has a working paper on Climate-Gate pending publication, and it focuses on the impact the event had on American belief in climate change.

"That paper shows that Climate-Gate did have a significant impact on public opinion," he tells me. "We found that, first of all, 75% of the public didn't even know about it."

D.R. Tucker's "Confessions": How do climate skeptics change their minds? - By Brian Merchant - Slate Magazine

So what might lead the nation's skeptics and undecideds towards such meaningful conversions?

For skeptics, it'd probably require dismantling major chunks of the "denial industry"— the multinational corporations, conservative think tanks, and partisan cable networks that have an interest in promulgating doubt about climate science. This won't happen anytime soon.