Of course

VIA INSTAPUNDIT:

JULY 5, 2011

STUDY: The more people know about science, the less they believe in global warming.

“The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: Limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults (N = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly less likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones.”

Posted at 12:25 pm by Glenn Reynolds

Aha! So, the less you know, the easier you are to fool? And the easier you are to fool, the easier it will be to stampede you into advocating whatever nonsense is being pedaled? to get you to yap about "scientific consensus" as if you had the slightest idea what you're talking about?

The global warming crusade has never been about science, it's been about using the accoutrements of science to push agendas -- political agendas for some, and a get-rich agenda for others. For science, it will stand primarily as an embarrassment.

Byron